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Why is secur32.dll called secur32.dll and not secure32.dll?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Many years ago, in a discussion of why you shouldn't name your DLL "security.dll", I dug a bit into the history behind the DLL. Here are some other useless tidbits about that file. Originally, there were two DLLs called . One was the 32-bit version and one was the 16-bit version. They could coexist because the 32-bit version was in the directory...

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