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replacing dllhost ?

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 06:23 AM

how devastating for OS would be if dllhost.exe would be replaced with dud ?
(just like XP could to get rid of verclsid)

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 06:41 AM

View Postvinifera, on 05 December 2012 - 06:23 AM, said:

how devastating for OS would be if dllhost.exe would be replaced with dud ?
(just like XP could to get rid of verclsid)

Why don't you just try doing it and observe the results?

Ray Bradbury said:

Life is "trying things to see if they work".



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Posted 05 December 2012 - 08:40 AM

Incorrectly cleaning a virus that "replaces" processes like this (or explorer or whatever) will definately cause problems. I'd say give it a shot in a VM!

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 08:42 AM

this will break a lot of functions (thumbnail, copy/move)

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 08:50 AM

Actually, it might just be easier to use ProcExp to pause the dllhost.exe process and see how Windows behaves.

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 02:26 PM

View PostTripredacus, on 05 December 2012 - 08:40 AM, said:

I'd say give it a shot in a VM!


can't :( , too little disk for both OS and VM of same :P

View PostMagicAndre1981, on 05 December 2012 - 08:42 AM, said:

this will break a lot of functions (thumbnail, copy/move)


copy/paste is dependant on this thing?

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 09:22 PM

A quick search yields this and this, which I believe are worth reading.

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 07:01 AM

thanks :D

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 08:54 AM

View Postvinifera, on 05 December 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

copy/paste is dependant on this thing?


yes, since Vista MS finally moved a lot of code into seperate DLLs and uses DLLhost.exe to run them.

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