>>>A dll is not really an exe with a different extension.
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>>What do you base this conclusion on??? This is counter to what I have been told and read.
>
>Can you run any dll as an exe if you change the extension?

No way. DLLs and EXEs are totally different animals. EXEs must contain
code to bootstrap themselves into the operating system so they can run.
DLLs are only clients to existing processes. They run inside of another
another process.

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