I am running out of disk space to put music on my hard drive. I want to find more space. I see that I have many duplicate DLL files. I remember, a few years ago, that it was generally believed that you could move the latest dll file to the /system directory and delete all others. I had mixed results back then, ie some programs didn't run correctly. Any body got the straight story on this? Recommend software to find and delete?
2006-08-18 05:42:33 · 3 answers · asked by Captain_Eric 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Usually when a program is installed, it adds any dll files it needs, and marks in the registry where those files are located. If ProgramA puts the progA.dll file in its own directory, there is where it will look for it first. If you delete the progA.dll from there, it will look in /system or /system32 next. If it finds a file by the same name, it will use that one. Hopefully that file will work. Sometimes it will, some times it will not. So when you delete a dll, you are taking a chance.
Won't it be better to move some our your music to CDs, or add another (internal or external) hard drive for storage then to risk crashing the PC?
2006-08-18 05:53:23 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.dlls are typically tiny compared to music files. Doesn't it make sense to offload some of the music onto a DVD or CD?
I wouldn't recommend deleting .dlls. They were put there by different applications and may be expecting a certain version level to work.
Try uninstalling some of that stuff on your machine that you don't use anymore. Or, how about buying an external hard drive (amazingly cheap) and then you can have tons of music!
2006-08-18 05:54:48 · answer #2 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used DuplicateFilesDeleter.It is a simple & effective tool.Love it!
2014-03-01 04:33:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋