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Common Troubleshooting Steps for DLL Errors

Dynamic Link Libraries or DLL files comprise executable functions that can be dynamically loaded and used by the Windows operating system and other software on it. There are hundreds of DLL files on your computer and this is the reason why there are several causes of DLL errors. Some of the most common causes of DLL errors on Windows XP are:

• - A program uninstallation process removed one or more shared DLL files from the system.
• - When a new program was installed, it overwrote an existing and more recent DLL file version.
• - One or more hardware devices, such as memory and input/output buses that are controlled with a DLL file is malfunctioning.
• - There are incorrect or corrupt DLL entries in the registry.
• - A malware infection has damaged the DLL file your system is trying to access.

Because there are so many different causes of DLL errors, you need to resolve them on the basis of what caused the error in the first place.

Listed below are some of the tasks that you can follow to perform a DLL fix in different situations. (click read more)