About DWMAPI.DLL

DWMAPI.DLL is a vista only dll, but it will be wanted in some cases on non-Vista OS. It seems a MS bug. Haha.

 

“Now that vista is out, can you please fix the MAJOR bug that causes IE7 to kill any non vista box. Namely that IEFRAME.DLL seems to have been compiled with a call to DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea which it says is in DWMAPI.dll except that DWMAPI.DLL is a VISTA DLL! So any application that for whatever reason pulls that in, seems to fail.  I don't know why IE7 doesn't fail as well, but many applications are failing left and right due to this.”

“I highly recommend people think twice about installing IE7. It will most likely break existing applications on your system.
MSHTML.DLL pulls in IEFRAME.DLL which attempts to pull in DWMAPI.DLL. However, DWMAPI.DLL does no exist on any non vista box. I just installed a Server 2K3 box and did the critical updates and since IE7 was listed as high priority it downloaded and I got hit by this.
It's amazingly shocking that something like this got through Microsoft's testing.”