Stoping a DLL from running

[Vampyr 0]

I'm running a Point Of Sale system that loads a DLL program into memory. In order to perform system updates the DLL has to be unloaded. The only way to achieve this is by rebooting the machine. Is there a command line i can use to manually stop and unload the dll?

I'm using win2k server.

[test_client 0]

This is not supposed to happen to 32bit windows applications.

 

A Win16 program that loaded a DLL with LoadLibrary and crashed or didn’t call FreeLibrary later would leave the DLL in memory even after the program exited. Matt Pietrek wrote a famous NukeDLL utility for dealing with this problem, and there are still several versions of it floating around. I am not sure if it will work in your case. Here is a link where you can get one of the versions:

 

http://www.openinformationsystems.com/provalov/freeware/nukedll.zip

 

Hope this helps.