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From: David Long
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:13

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Why would you want to do this?  Does your DLL carry out some passive 
activity based on interrupts or some other asynchronous event?

One way to achieve this effect is to list your DLL on the LOAD= line in 
WIN.INI so that it gets loaded as Windows boots and stays there until 
Windows shuts down.  Another way is for your DLL to be loaded by some 
application, then to immediately do a LoadLibrary() on itself to 
increase its usage count from 1 to 2.  Then when the app that used it 
terminates, Windows decrements your DLL's usage count from 2 to 1 and 
leaves it in memory.

David Long
Microsoft Developer Network

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