The 'shared' figure for DLLs, as stored in the registry, indicates the
number of applications that have installed and claimed to use this DLL. If
you uninstall an application and the count reaches 0 you should be prompted
to delete because in theory it's not being used any more.

Values of 10000 sound like mistakes have crept in!

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> 686/166. Win95B. IE 5.5.
>
> Yesterday I downloaded Karen's Powertool "Pruner".
>
> On running it, opening the "Shared .dll's" tab shows numerous
> shared .dll
> files, each with a usage of 1 or 2.
>
> First, I'm not clear what this usage column refers to---is it
> the usage
> times for this boot, or forever in the history of my
> computer, or over what
> period? I'm sure many of those files have been called on many
> occasions.
> Not that it really matters, I'm just curious, if anyone knows.
>
> Karen's Readme file doesn't say.
>
> What I'm REALLY curious about is that 2 files, namely
> "TRIEDIT.dll" and
> DHTMLED.ocx" are shown each as having 10000 usage. I know
> that these files
> have something to do with html editing, which I've only done
> a very little
> of (slight alterations to one page, and not in dhtml) since
> reformatting my
> computer a few weeks ago.
>
> Why would these 2 files be getting so much usage?  The
> identical figures
> showed when I ran Pruner for the first time yesterday, and
> again today.
>
> Could this be a false reading?
>
> Could there be gremlins and goblins in my computer, surreptitiously
> disseminating supernatural Web pages?
>
> Don Penlington

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