I found 'find orphans' but this isn't what I'm after... I want to find the children and their parents and cousins I don't care about the orphans... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Rigby-Jones" To: Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [ot]: Is there a program for dll identification > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tom Messenger [SMTP:krist@THEGRID.NET] > > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:21 PM > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > Subject: Re: [ot]: Is there a program for dll identification > > > > At 10:33 PM 4/28/02 -0500, you wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >Is there a program that will scan a windows system and > > >tell you which dll and other system files go along with > > >their associated programs?? > > > > > >Preferably a shareware... > > > > PC Magazine published a free program a while back called finddlls.exe that > > probably does exactly what you want. It was, however, before XP and I have > > no idea if it works with it. They periodically update their free ware > > offerings and may have an update of this. > > > > When you run it, it scans your drive and prepares a table of all dll's and > > indicates which ones call others, which exe's call any given dll and which > > dll's that it cannot determine are called by anyone (ie, "orphans"). > > > > It is only 46K bytes. Check at http://www.pcmag.com in their utilities > > section or perhaps try to google-ize it. > > > > Best regards, > > Tom M. > > > I was interested in this and had a quick look. The original utility was > written for 16 bit Windows so it's unlikely to work with anything newer with > Win 3.1. A newer utility written for 32 bit Windows is called FindOrphans. > It's quoted as being a replacement for the original but I haven't tried it > yet. > > http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1478%2526a%253D6643,00.asp > > Regards > > Mike > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body