PC DOC PRO-How to Fix DLL Errors

Finding and Fixing DLL Errors

Each of the software programs on your PC functions because of the data in settings which are stored on its DLL files. The file extension .dll means Dynamic Link Library. Your computer's system contains a huge number of these files, and each time you install some new software, you add more. Every website you visit while surfing the Internet also has DLL files.Whenever you run a program, even if you simply open a window or save a file, you'll be adding to a program's library of DLL files. Each DLL file, however, can also be used by other programs. The DLL files on your Windows operating system, for instance, are shared DLL files.

Because there are so many of these files on your PC, it's inevitable that you'll begin to experience DLL-related errors sooner or later. When that happens, you'll naturally wonder if the error is a result of something you did. For that question, however, there is seldom a yes-or-no answer. You will raise your chances of experiencing DLL errors if you're someone who frequently installs or uninstalls programs, or takes advantage of free Internet downloads. These downloads can include software which is required to use the features of different websites.
Of course, if you need software to view a website, and you need to do that website, there is not much you can do to keep those DLL files off your PC!

*-Common Reasons for DLL Errors

The single most prevalent reason that DLL errors begin to service on your computer is poor programming. No system has yet been established to standardize the naming and storing of DLL files. In the case of shared DLL files, what this lack of standardization means is that if one of the programs using the file updates it, that DLL file will know along or be usable for the other programs which share. As soon as one of those programs tries to use the file and fails, you'll have a DLL error.

This problem of overwritten DLL files became so serious that Microsoft's programmers had their own term for it, "DLL stomping." With Windows 2000, Microsoft tried to fix the problem with the Windows File Protection feature. But DLL errors still occur, especially when a PC accumulates old DLL files which are no longer needed for any of its programs.

Your Windows operating system still has to search through these unnecessary DLL files to find the ones that it really needs. These files can slow your PCs performance, cause conflicts between different applications, and if ignored long enough, may even cause system crashes. What's the solution?

You can't fix your DLL errors until you know why you have them. If a DLL file you need has gone missing, you simply replace it. Other fixes, however, are quite as easy. It takes a great deal of technical competence to be able to locate and repair DLL errors within the Windows registry. If you're like most PC users, you're simply not that savvy. Your best and quickest way to rid your PC of those annoying DLL errors is simply to use and effective registry cleaner like PC Doctor Pro.With a good registry cleaner, you'll be able to scan your registry for DLL errors, and have the registry cleaner repair them without risking any of the other registry files essential for your computer' s functioning.