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To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (12752)	9/27/2001 2:57:33 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

rundll.exe is not only used to run power-management functions. It's a general-purpose mechanism, which Microsoft is using more and more. It allows, in some cases, a DLL to be "run" as a program. A DLL is basically a library of functions that can be called. They are normally called from programs. DLLs have gotten more sophisticated over the years, though, to the point where some DLLs contain complete subsystems including GUIs. So, somewhere along the way, somebody got the bright idea that it would be useful to have a generic "wrapper" that would allow a function inside of a DLL to be run without having to write a special main program just to do that. Thus, rundll.exe. Unfortunately, the Windows Task Manager hasn't kept up with progress. It doesn't show what DLL and what function are being executed by each instance of rundll.exe. See: support.microsoft.com