hotice
27th September 2002 01:38 UTC

how to change a file that being used
My application includes riched20.dll v4.0 which carried by MSOffice 10.
But the file has the same name is v 3.0 in my winnt\system32.
If I copy the new file into winnt\system32, the system will use the older instead of it immediately.
My OS is Win2000.
The files CAN be copied in Win98.

Yathosho
27th September 2002 22:07 UTC

wasnt there a plugin to update DLLs?

Joost Verburg
27th September 2002 23:01 UTC

That's because important system files which should not be changed have 'Windows File Protection' (in ME/2000/XP). So you cannot put this file in the System directory.

brainsucker
27th September 2002 23:06 UTC

richedit
BTW you can place it in your program dir, this dir will be checked first during the search for that dll.