dllwindows-10dependency-walker

Dependency walker is very slow for wintrust.dll

I use Dependency Walker to open wintrust.dll on my Windows 10 and it takes around 40 seconds! When it is opened, I see very strange picture of recurring calls between KERNEL32.DLL and API-MS-WIN-CORE-PROCESSTHREADS-L1-1-1.DLL:

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I suppose this is the source of the problem. When I try to open my own dll, that includes wintrust.dll on separate paths, it might take up to 10 minutes (!) to open.

Why is this happening?

Solution

  • Don't use dependency walker. Here's one good alternative I'm aware of: Dependencies by Lucasg. Unlike dependency walker - it is aware of ApiSets and thus will not recurse indefinitely.