Mike Hearn mike@navi.cx writes:
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 15:49, Vincent Béron wrote:
How? Remove a particular touched dll from c:\windows\system? If you have two apps, one wanting the 0-sized dll and the other one choking on it, what do you do?
Well I doubt any app actually relies on a DLL being empty, that'd never work on Windows. If you find an app which requires more than the filename to exist then yes, you could can just overwrite it with a real PE file.
It's not that the app wants the dll to be empty, it's that it can deal with the file not being there at all, but it can't deal with the file being there but empty (since that would never happen on Windows). So in many cases creating empty files makes things worse than not having the files at all.