Those DLLs are Windows's implementation detail and are subject to change at anytime. Basically Microsoft started moving around APIs starting from Windows 8. For example, APIs in Windows 8's api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll got moved to api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-1.dll in Windows 8.1. Errors related to ext-ms-win-gdi-font-l1-1-0.dll can arise for a few different different reasons. For instance, a faulty application, ext-ms-win-gdi-font-l1-1-0.dll has been deleted or misplaced, corrupted by malicious software present on your PC or a damaged Windows registry. Api-ms-win-core-apiquery-l1-1-0.dll This means that when Windows.Graphics.dll is loaded, the above files are automatically loaded too. If one of these files is corrupted or missing, Windows.Graphics.dll won't be loaded.
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This site was built by scanning all DLL files located in system32 directory of Windows 8 and creating (with automatic script) a Web page for each DLL with all found infromation. Each DLL information page includes: Version information - product name, company, file desctiption, and so on. The following DLL report was generated by automatic DLL script that scanned and loaded all DLL files in the system32 directory of Windows 7, extracted the information from them, and then saved it into HTML reports.
| Windows 8 DLL File Information |
Welcome to DLL information site for Windows 8.
This site was built by scanning all DLL files located in system32 directory of Windows 8 and creating (with automatic script) a Web page for each DLL with all found infromation.
Each DLL information page includes:
- Version information - product name, company, file desctiption, and so on.
- DLL popularity - Shows you how many DLLs are statically linked to this file.
- List of files that are statically linked to the specified file. Displayed only when the number of files in the list is 10 or less.
- Sections information - Shows you the code and data sections in the DLL.
- Resources information - Displays a summary of resources stored in the DLL (icons, bitmaps, cursors, dialog-boxes, and so on)
- Icons Thumbnail - A Thumbnail with all icons stored in the DLL.
- Cursors Thumbnail - A Thumbnail with all cursors stored in the DLL.
- Strings information - Displays a list of strings stored in this DLL (Currently the list is limited to 200 strings)
- Diaogbox information - Displays a list of dialog-boxes captions in this DLL (Currently the list is limited to 200 dialog-boxes)
- Static Linking - Displays the list of DLL files that are statically linked to the DLL. When a DLL is loaded the DLL in this Static Linking list are also loaded with it.
- Exports/Imports List - A list of all imported and exported functions.
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Looking in the Web page of specific DLL can help to learn what is this DLL and how it's linked with the other DLL files on Windows 8 operating system.
In order to browse into the right DLL page, select the first letter of the DLL file, and then you'll get a list of all dll files begins with this letter:
You can also locate a DLL according to the following 'TOP DLL' statistics:
Top 10 DLL files with largest number of icons
| Filename | Description | Number of icons |
|---|---|---|
| imageres.dll | Windows Image Resource | 384 |
| shell32.dll | Windows Shell Common Dll | 322 |
| wmploc.DLL | Windows Media Player Resources | 193 |
| netshell.dll | Network Connections Shell | 165 |
| DDORes.dll | Device Category information and resources | 132 |
| mmcndmgr.dll | MMC Node Manager DLL | 129 |
| moricons.dll | Windows NT Setup Icon Resources Library | 113 |
| ieframe.dll | Internet Browser | 104 |
| compstui.dll | Common Property Sheet User Interface DLL | 101 |
| twinui.dll | TWINUI | 94 |
Top 10 DLL files with largest number of cursors
| Filename | Description | Number of cursors |
|---|---|---|
| user32.dll | Multi-User Windows USER API Client DLL | 32 |
| mshtml.dll | Microsoft (R) HTML Viewer | 22 |
| msftedit.dll | Rich Text Edit Control, v7.5 | 21 |
| comctl32.dll | Common Controls Library | 18 |
| riched20.dll | Rich Text Edit Control, v3.1 | 17 |
| WFSR.dll | Windows Fax and Scan Resources | 15 |
| FXSRESM.dll | Microsoft Fax Resource DLL | 14 |
| mfc40u.dll | MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version | 12 |
| mfc42.dll | MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version | 12 |
| mfc42u.dll | MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version | 12 |
Top 10 DLL files with largest number of bitmaps
| Filename | Description | Number of bitmaps |
|---|---|---|
| ieframe.dll | Internet Browser | 372 |
| ExplorerFrame.dll | ExplorerFrame | 263 |
| wmploc.DLL | Windows Media Player Resources | 261 |
| UIRibbonRes.dll | Windows Ribbon Framework Resources | 234 |
| twinui.dll | TWINUI | 92 |
| wdc.dll | Performance Monitor | 55 |
| UIRibbon.dll | Windows Ribbon Framework | 43 |
| shell32.dll | Windows Shell Common Dll | 36 |
| Display.dll | Display Control Panel | 31 |
| mmcndmgr.dll | MMC Node Manager DLL | 29 |
Top 10 DLL files with largest number of dialog-boxes
| Filename | Description | Number of dialog-boxes |
|---|---|---|
| wmploc.DLL | Windows Media Player Resources | 117 |
| comres.dll | COM+ Resources | 109 |
| ieframe.dll | Internet Browser | 107 |
| shell32.dll | Windows Shell Common Dll | 100 |
| rasdlg.dll | Remote Access Common Dialog API | 96 |
| wsecedit.dll | Security Configuration UI Module | 66 |
| FXSRESM.dll | Microsoft Fax Resource DLL | 60 |
| cmdial32.dll | Microsoft Connection Manager | 56 |
| ACCTRES.dll | Microsoft Internet Account Manager Resources | 50 |
| dmdskres.dll | Disk Management Snap-in Resources | 49 |
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Top 10 DLL files with largest number of string resources
| Filename | Description | Number of strings |
|---|---|---|
| getuname.dll | Unicode name Dll for UCE | 15,979 |
| Winlangdb.dll | Windows Bcp47 Language Database | 10,085 |
| shell32.dll | Windows Shell Common Dll | 3,545 |
| wmploc.DLL | Windows Media Player Resources | 2,920 |
| ieframe.dll | Internet Browser | 2,477 |
| propsys.dll | Microsoft Property System | 1,809 |
| msjint40.dll | Microsoft Jet Database Engine International DLL | 1,424 |
| odbcjt32.dll | Microsoft ODBC Desktop Driver Pack 3.5 | 1,215 |
| FXSRESM.dll | Microsoft Fax Resource DLL | 1,184 |
| storagewmi.dll | WMI Provider for Storage Management | 1,172 |
Top 10 DLL files with largest type library
| Filename | Description | Type library size |
|---|---|---|
| MSVidCtl.dll | ActiveX control for streaming video | 256 KB |
| wmp.dll | Windows Media Player | 208 KB |
| srm.dll | Microsoft® File Server Resource Manager Common Library | 172 KB |
| msvbvm60.dll | Visual Basic Virtual Machine | 145 KB |
| CertEnroll.dll | Microsoft® Active Directory Certificate Services Enrollment Client | 141 KB |
| tapi3.dll | Microsoft TAPI3 | 113 KB |
| comsvcs.dll | COM+ Services | 106 KB |
| SRH.dll | Screen Reader Helper DLL | 102 KB |
| InkEd.dll | Microsoft Tablet PC InkEdit Control | 99 KB |
| msxml3.dll | MSXML 3.0 | 93 KB |
Top 25 popular DLL files in System32 directory
In the following table, you can find the DLL files that are commonly used by other DLL files. The 'Number of DLLs' column represents the number of DLL files that use the specified DLL. For example: The first DLL file in this table - msvcrt.dll, is loaded by other 1,674 DLL files in the system32 directory. This statistics is based on static link (import tables) between the DLL files.| Filename | Description | Number of DLLs |
|---|---|---|
| msvcrt.dll | Windows NT CRT DLL | 1,674 |
| kernel32.dll | Windows NT BASE API Client DLL | 1,377 |
| ntdll.dll | NT Layer DLL | 1,090 |
| user32.dll | Multi-User Windows USER API Client DLL | 803 |
| advapi32.dll | Advanced Windows 32 Base API | 778 |
| api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 672 |
| oleaut32.dll | 648 | |
| ole32.dll | Microsoft OLE for Windows | 645 |
| api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 644 |
| api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 641 |
| api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 622 |
| api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 616 |
| api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-2-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 614 |
| api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 601 |
| rpcrt4.dll | Remote Procedure Call Runtime | 558 |
| api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 515 |
| api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 512 |
| api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 397 |
| api-ms-win-security-base-l1-2-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 395 |
| api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-2-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 387 |
| api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 377 |
| api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-1.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 340 |
| api-ms-win-core-heap-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll | ApiSet Stub DLL | 320 |
| shlwapi.dll | Shell Light-weight Utility Library | 310 |
| gdi32.dll | GDI Client DLL | 276 |
Errors related to ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll can arise for a few different different reasons. For instance, a faulty application, ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll has been deleted or misplaced, corrupted by malicious software present on your PC or a damaged Windows registry.
The most commonly occurring error messages are:
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- The program can't start because ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
- There was a problem starting ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll. The specified module could not be found.
- Error loading ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll. The specified module could not be found.
- The code execution cannot proceed because ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.
- ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vender for support.
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In the vast majority of cases, the solution is to properly reinstall ext-ms-win-gdi-metafile-l1-1-0.dll on your PC, to the Windows system folder. Alternatively, some programs, notably PC games, require that the DLL file is placed in the game/application installation folder.
For detailed installation instructions, see our FAQ.