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An app whose Windows Installer entries are damaged cannot be uninstalled or reinstalled via the normal means. The Windows Installer CleanUp utility removes all files and registry settings associated with an app's Windows Installer database, allowing it to be reinstalled. The utility only changes registry values and files associated with Windows ...
DLL hell is an umbrella term for the complications that arise when one works with dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) used with older Microsoft Windows operating systems, [1] particularly legacy 16-bit editions, which all run in a single memory space.
Alternatively, the existing dependency, along with all software that depends on it, must be uninstalled in order to install the new dependency. A problem on Linux systems with installing packages from a different distributor is that the resulting long chain of dependencies may lead to a conflicting version of the C standard library (e.g. the ...
Windows Installer (msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer, [3] codename Darwin) [4] [5] is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software.
Dependency Walker can still be used for some application level debugging despite this. As of October 2017 an Open Source C# rewrite of Dependency Walker called Dependencies.exe has been released on GitHub. [13] It does not yet offer the full range of Dependency Walker features, but has been updated to handle Windows API-sets and WinSxS (side-by ...
Circular dependencies can cause many unwanted effects in software programs. Most problematic from a software design point of view is the tight coupling of the mutually dependent modules which reduces or makes impossible the separate re-use of a single module.