I see similarly named DLL files in \Windows!

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Q: Strangely, there're very similar files in my \Windows directory with names filename.dll and filename.dll1 (or, !filename.dll and filename.dll). Both of these files are referenced by the registry. A: I don't think any app would use the one with dll1 under normal circumstances. I always check the DLL's installed to \Windows with all the apps and games I review to check their main RAM usage and, if they use RAM, relocatability. I've already checked hundreds if not thousands of apps and have never run into a single one that would use DLL names like DLL1. What I think is the following: some apps (the most important example is SE_VGA, which, at first, stores the DLL's with an exclamation mark-prefixed form) store their DLL's with bogus names like this before the first run and they haven't been run as yet. (This is the case with the exclamation mark-prefixed files (!filename.dll) - if you have a VGA device and have installed SE_VGA but have not run it, you may run into files with names like !filename.dll – for example, !outres.96.dll). Also, it's highly possible you've tried to update an application that couldn't properly uninstall the existing version on the PDA because of the faulty uninstaller not forcing the system to release a locked DLL. An example of this is cLaunch under PPC2k2 – see this blog entry for the links to my complete roundup of Today launcher plug-ins for more information on this particular example. This may also be the reason why the DLL got renamed to DLL1 with, otherwise, the same filename. BTW, what is the real filename of these DLL's? Also, can you copy here the relevant (and only it!) registry area (use an export-capable registry editor - please see this registry editor roundup on this capability to be able to choose if you're unsure) to do this?