RJARRRPCGP Posted January 20, 2006 Posted January 20, 2006 (edited) Why is this file still on the HDD? I hope that an application isn't trying to smuggle Internet Explorer on to my Windows 2000 installation.I'm now suspicious that some applications, instead of crashing or erroring, install Internet Explorer without my permission!! Edited January 20, 2006 by RJARRRPCGP
cluberti Posted January 20, 2006 Posted January 20, 2006 shlwapi.dll is the Shell Lightweight API library, and is used by the Windows Shell (explorer.exe) and Internet Explorer. SHLWAPI provides many shell related APIs for the operating system to use - these functions include string manipulation, URL parsing, association determination, path information, and registry manipulation (there are more, but a user wouldn't run into these specialized API's without some dev experience).If you delete shlwapi.dll, you will find certain functions of the shell will stop working as well.
RJARRRPCGP Posted January 20, 2006 Author Posted January 20, 2006 (edited) shlwapi.dll is the Shell Lightweight API library, and is used by the Windows Shell (explorer.exe) and Internet Explorer. SHLWAPI provides many shell related APIs for the operating system to use - these functions include string manipulation, URL parsing, association determination, path information, and registry manipulation (there are more, but a user wouldn't run into these specialized API's without some dev experience).If you delete shlwapi.dll, you will find certain functions of the shell will stop working as well.I double checked, because I assumed that it was for only Internet Explorer and thus got worried that an application was trying to install Internet Explorer silently!! This is when I explicitly want a Windows 2000 installation without Internet Explorer!!I got more suspicious, because shlwapi.dll has a later creation and modified date than other files!! Edited January 20, 2006 by RJARRRPCGP
cluberti Posted January 21, 2006 Posted January 21, 2006 Do you have any Windows Updates installed? If you do, any of those updates that update shell components will update shlwapi.dll (and shdocvw.dll, which you also shouldn't remove).
RJARRRPCGP Posted January 21, 2006 Author Posted January 21, 2006 (edited) Do you have any Windows Updates installed? If you do, any of those updates that update shell components will update shlwapi.dll (and shdocvw.dll, which you also shouldn't remove).Yep. I got hotfixes. I did the following:1. Slipstreamed Service Pack 4.2. Used HFSLIP to slipstream around 15 hotfixes and slipstreamed DirectX 9.0c. Also used the FDV file set.3. Burned the Windows CD boot sectors and the slipstreamed and HFSLIP'ed I386 folder to a Sony CD-R on an LG CD-RW drive. Edited January 21, 2006 by RJARRRPCGP
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