Showing All DLL Files Used by Each Process

Windows Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟"tasklist" Command Line Tool to List Process Information

∟Showing All DLL Files Used by Each Process

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use command 'tasklist' to show all DLL module files used by each running process with the module option '/M'.

The "tasklist" command does also have another useful feature - Showing all DLL module files used by each running process. The DLL module file usage information is useful to answer some common administration questions like:

Why this ABC.DLL file is in use?
What applications/programs are using this ABC.DLL file?
What are the DLL files used by this application?

To get a list of DLL module files used by each process, you can run the "tasklist" command with the module option "/M". An example result is included below:

C:\herong>tasklist /M

Image Name                Modules
========================= ===========================================
System Idle Process       N/A
System                    N/A
smss.exe                  ntdll.dll
csrss.exe                 ntdll.dll, CSRSRV.dll, basesrv.dll,
                          winsrv.dll, GDI32.dll, KERNEL32.dll,
                          USER32.dll, LPK.DLL, USP10.dll, msvcrt.dll,
                          ADVAPI32.dll, RPCRT4.dll, sxs.dll,
                          Apphelp.dll, VERSION.dll
winlogon.exe              ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll, ADVAPI32.dll,
                          RPCRT4.dll, AUTHZ.dll, msvcrt.dll,
                          CRYPT32.dll, USER32.dll, GDI32.dll,
                          MSASN1.dll, NDdeApi.dll, PROFMAP.dll,
                          NETAPI32.dll, USERENV.dll, PSAPI.DLL,
                          REGAPI.dll, Secur32.dll, SETUPAPI.dll,
                          VERSION.dll, WINSTA.dll, WINTRUST.dll,
                          IMAGEHLP.dll, WS2_32.dll, WS2HELP.dll,
                          IMM32.DLL, LPK.DLL, USP10.dll, MSGINA.dll,
                          SHELL32.dll, SHLWAPI.dll, COMCTL32.dll,
                          ODBC32.dll, comdlg32.dll, comctl32.dll,
                          odbcint.dll, SHSVCS.dll, sfc.dll,
                          sfc_os.dll, ole32.dll, Apphelp.dll,
                          msctfime.ime, WINSCARD.DLL, WTSAPI32.dll,
                          sxs.dll, uxtheme.dll, WINMM.dll,
                          Ati2evxx.dll, cscdll.dll, WlNotify.dll,
                          WINSPOOL.DRV, MPR.dll, rsaenh.dll,
                          WgaLogon.dll, OLEAUT32.dll, NTMARTA.DLL,
                          WLDAP32.dll, SAMLIB.dll, CLBCATQ.DLL,
                          COMRes.dll, msv1_0.dll, iphlpapi.dll,
                          cscui.dll, xpsp2res.dll, wdmaud.drv,
                          msacm32.drv, MSACM32.dll, midimap.dll,
                          wbemprox.dll, wbemcomn.dll, wbemsvc.dll,
                          fastprox.dll, MSVCP60.dll, NTDSAPI.dll,
                          DNSAPI.dll, msxml3.dll, wsock32.dll,
                          icmp.dll, MPRAPI.dll, ACTIVEDS.dll,
                          adsldpc.dll, ATL.DLL, rtutils.dll,
                          mswsock.dll, hnetcfg.dll, wshtcpip.dll,
                          kerberos.dll, cryptdll.dll, Cabinet.dll
services.exe              ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll, msvcrt.dll,
                          ADVAPI32.dll, RPCRT4.dll, USER32.dll,
                          GDI32.dll, USERENV.dll, SCESRV.dll,
                          AUTHZ.dll, umpnpmgr.dll, WINSTA.dll,
                          NETAPI32.dll, NCObjAPI.DLL, MSVCP60.dll,
                          ShimEng.dll, AcGenral.DLL, WINMM.dll,
                          ole32.dll, OLEAUT32.dll, MSACM32.dll,
                          VERSION.dll, SHELL32.dll, SHLWAPI.dll,
                          UxTheme.dll, IMM32.DLL, LPK.DLL, USP10.dll,
                          comctl32.dll, comctl32.dll, secur32.dll,
                          Apphelp.dll, eventlog.dll, WS2_32.dll,
                          WS2HELP.dll, PSAPI.DLL, wtsapi32.dll,
                          ESENT.dll, SETUPAPI.dll, Cabinet.dll,
                          SAMLIB.dll
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