<div>I had something like that years ago under 95 or 98. And I started to wonder if you could end up with a whole chain of DLLs referenceing eachother, and somehow one of them wrongly sharing or accessing some other's memory space. And some other process (nothing to do with my app) triggering one of the DLL chains off which some how impinged on some legitimate thing my app was actually meant to be doing.
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<div>Just as I was honing in on it, it seemed that MS put an update out and the problem disaapeared!</div>
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<div>So I never knew!</div>
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<div>The article I mentioned is non-specific, but may point in the right direction and be useful in a future situation.</div>
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<div>Paul<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Coulter</b> <<a href="mailto:vss@vss.co.nz">vss@vss.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Hi Paul.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">No I have not solved the issue. In saying that, I have deleted the "offending" DLL and rebooted the computers, and no errors have been reported yet...although sometimes it takes 2-3 days before it appears, sometimes its overnight.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I am using madExept and the interesting thing IS, its nto reporting the error, and I confirmed with the guy at Madshi (or where ever it is) and he also thinks like I do that its actually something else NOT my app, its just affecting my app.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">But I will read the article you supplied all teh same.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Jeremy</font></span></div><br>
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delphi-bounces@ns3.123.net.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul A Norman<br><b>Sent:</b> 13 March 2007 10:18<span class="q"><br><b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br></span><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] finding what DLLs an exe uses
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<div>Hi Jeremy,</div>
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<div>Don't know if you have resolved this yet or not, but it seems that some DLL error descriptions may not always show on an open google search of MSDN as some of the more exotic or specific problems might have been databased, here is an article that describes how to get at that info if you have not already seen it.
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811694.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811694.aspx</a></div>
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<div>Paul<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Coulter</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vss@vss.co.nz" target="_blank">vss@vss.co.nz</a>> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Well I am not having much luck here. Has anyone had an error like this?</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">The application or DLL C:\Windows\Systems32\Setupapi.dll is not a valid windows image.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Please check this against your instaaltion discette.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">I am not able to reproduce the error which is slichtly worrying.</font></span></span></div>
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<div><span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Jeremy</font></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><span><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.net.nz" target="_blank">delphi-bounces@ns3.123.net.nz</a> [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.net.nz" target="_blank">
delphi-bounces@ns3.123.net.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Coulter<br><b>Sent:</b> 6 March 2007 09:33<br><b>To:</b> 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<br><b>Subject:</b> [DUG] finding what DLLs an exe uses
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">I have a feeling that there is a tool/s that I can use that tells me what dlls are used by an app?</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">I have a problem where at 1am on a client PC (and it haapens on a couple of them but not all) where they get an error :-</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">The application or DLL C:\Windows\Systems32\Setupapi.dll is not a valid windows image.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Please check this against your instaaltion discette.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">the weired thing is, I am not knowingly using this dll.</font></span></span></div>
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<div><span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks, Jeremy</font></span></span></div></span></div><br>
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