After an application is closed, XP has the annoying habit of leaving the associated DLL files in memory. This can hog precious resources and memory, and also cause stability problems. Make the DLLs unload themselves from memory after the program is done running.
Navigate to:
HLM\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ AlwaysUnloadDLL
If the DWORD AlwaysUnloadDLL is not present, you will need to create it. Set the Value of the “(Default)” setting to 1. Application-associated DLLs will get unloaded when the application is closed.
