Looking for a tool to track down a DLL
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Is it possible to determine which DLL a particular Dialog is coming from. I have this annoying dialog from a think pad utility and it keeps popping up randomly. All the tools I have looked at (Spy++, WinSpector, Process Explorer) just show me the name of the process i.e. the exe. In my case, the dialog is coming from some service hence the process is always explorer.exe. A quick experiment you can run is to show network connection properties dialog and see if you can determine which DLL is the owner of it. Regards,
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Is it possible to determine which DLL a particular Dialog is coming from. I have this annoying dialog from a think pad utility and it keeps popping up randomly. All the tools I have looked at (Spy++, WinSpector, Process Explorer) just show me the name of the process i.e. the exe. In my case, the dialog is coming from some service hence the process is always explorer.exe. A quick experiment you can run is to show network connection properties dialog and see if you can determine which DLL is the owner of it. Regards,
In Process Explorer double click on executable, Threads tab, highlight dll then click on modules button will show the file properties dialog with path.
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Is it possible to determine which DLL a particular Dialog is coming from. I have this annoying dialog from a think pad utility and it keeps popping up randomly. All the tools I have looked at (Spy++, WinSpector, Process Explorer) just show me the name of the process i.e. the exe. In my case, the dialog is coming from some service hence the process is always explorer.exe. A quick experiment you can run is to show network connection properties dialog and see if you can determine which DLL is the owner of it. Regards,
FYI, Process Explorer can be found here[^].
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Is it possible to determine which DLL a particular Dialog is coming from. I have this annoying dialog from a think pad utility and it keeps popping up randomly. All the tools I have looked at (Spy++, WinSpector, Process Explorer) just show me the name of the process i.e. the exe. In my case, the dialog is coming from some service hence the process is always explorer.exe. A quick experiment you can run is to show network connection properties dialog and see if you can determine which DLL is the owner of it. Regards,
Do a text search in files for some of the text from the annoying dialog. Remember that much of the text will be embedded in resources so you'll need a search tool that can handle unicode.