These messages have always come up in the debug window of my VS .NET, and they''re no problem ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''D:\Programming\Poddle\Debug\Poddle.exe'', Symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\gdi32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\rpcrt4.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\glu32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\ddraw.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\dciman32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvoglnt.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\mcd32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Unloaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\mcd32.dll'' //////////////////////////////////////////////////// Now however, i''m getting the following coming up once i''m in my program. They don''t come up immediately though, only when I press a key... and my program seems to be ignoring the keypress in favour of VS bringing these messages up, so for example, the first time i press escape to quit, it doesn''t quit, but the window brings these up, then if i press escape again, it quits... ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\cd_clint.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\wsock32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2_32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2help.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetmib1.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\iphlpapi.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\snmpapi.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\mprapi.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\activeds.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\adsldpc.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\netapi32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\wldap32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\atl.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\oleaut32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\rtutils.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\samlib.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasapi32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasman.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\tapi32.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\system32\shlwapi.dll'', No symbols loaded. ''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.10.0_x-ww_f7fb5805\comctl32.dll'', No symbols loaded. Can anyone explain what''s doing this, and how I can stop it... Also, it doesn''t happen all the time, but I haven''t been able to figure out what exactly causes it, whether it''s something in the code, or possible another program I have running... Btw I''m running windows XP with VS .NET and service pack 1 installed, as well as latest detonator and motherboard drivers, and directx 9... Thanks $£¥ We scratch our eternal itch A twentieth century bitch We are grateful for Our Iron Lung

It''s normal. Windows is loading the DLLs.
Example:
If u initialize a plugin with LoadLibrary(...), and the DLL is not loaded in memory yet, the system loads it.
Then you get a message like this:
''Poddle.exe'': Loaded ''DLL_Path'', No symbols loaded.

So your program is loading kernel32.dll (Windows kernel), glu32.dll and so on.
Then, windows loads wsock32.dll - Winsock has probably been initialized.

PM

But why are the second lot of DLL''s only loaded once I press any key from inside my program??? It never used to do that before, and I''m pretty sure I''m not using anything from Winsock...

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