Dependency Walker

[dirtwarrior]

I am in the process of repairing an old beta OS and someone suggested I use Dependency Walker. I have never heard of this before so I have many questions about it. Can it work on an image or an installed OS? Individual files or whole folders? Does it automatically debeg? Or make suggestions about the same files from another OS?

Any insite or anything else will be great.

[dman]

Dependency Walker works on individual files of type exe, dll, com, ocx, sys, drv & cpl.

It will tell you what modules selected module makes function calls to and their version in a "tree" format.

[dirtwarrior]

Will using this help to repair an old beta OS somehow?

[dman]

If you can interpret what it is telling you, yes. It will tell you what files need to go along with the selected file, ie what dlls are required by given exe. You can see what functions are exported by the dependent dlls, and check if the versions you are attempting to use export the same functions. You need to know a little about programming and how dynamic linking works to use it effectively.