This has nothing to do with delay loads. These are MS API-sets – essentially, an extra level of call indirection introduced gradually since windows 7. Dependency walker development seemingly halted long before that, and it can’t handle API sets properly. So these are all false negatives and nothing to worry about. You’re not missing anything. … Read more
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 … Read more
These are API-sets – essentially, an extra level of call indirection introduced gradually since windows 7. Dependency walker development seemingly halted long before that, and it can’t handle API sets properly. So these are all false alarms and nothing to worry about. You’re not missing anything. Also see On API-MS-WIN-XXXXX.DLL, and Other Dependency Walker Glitches. … Read more
Here is Dependency Walker. http://dependencywalker.com/
Dependency walker works on normal win32 binaries. All .NET dll’s and exe’s have a small stub header part which makes them look like normal binaries, but all it basically says is “load the CLR” – so that’s all that dependency walker will tell you. To see which things your .NET app actually relies on, you … Read more