Dependency Walker reports IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL missing?

Question

On a Windows XP Professional SP3 with Internet Explorer 8 box, when I run Dependency Walker on an executable of mine it reports that: IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL can't be found.

1. Do I need these DLL's?
2. Where can I get them?

I believe they are supposed to located in C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wer.dll and C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\Ieshims.dll

Answer 1

ieshims.dll is an artefact of Vista/7 where a shim DLL is used to proxy certain calls (such as CreateProcess ) to handle protected mode IE, which doesn't exist on XP, so it is unnecessary. wer.dll is related to Windows Error Reporting and again is probably unused on Windows XP which has a slightly different error reporting system than Vista and above.

I would say you shouldn't need either of them to be present on XP and would normally be delay loaded anyway.

Answer 2

I had this issue recently and I resolved it by simply rolling IE8 back to IE7.

My guess is that IE7 had these files as a wrapper for working on Windows XP, but IE8 was likely made to work with Vista/7 so it removed the files because the later editions just don't use the shim.

Answer 3

I was having this error w/Citect.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update has the missing files.

Answer 4

1· Do I need these DLL's?

It depends since Dependency Walker is a little bit out of date and may report the wrong dependency.

2. Where can I get them?

most dlls can be found at https://www.dll-files.com

I believe they are supposed to located in C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wer.dll and C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\Ieshims.dll

For me leshims.dll can be placed at C:\\Windows\\System32\\ . Context: windows 7 64bit.