ShowDLLs

ShowDLLs is a lightweight command-line application that you can use to find out all DLLs being used by a specific process. This type of software can help you track down the resources of a running program and diagnose DLL-related issues.

Installing this tool isn't necessary. Instead, you can unpack the downloaded file to any location on the disk or straight to a USB flash drive to be able to run ShowDLLs on any computer directly.

Although double-clicking the executable file brings up a console window and lists the available commands, you have to first open a Command Prompt window and then call ShowDLLs's process to be able to use the tool.

The usage is ShowDLLs [-l | -i | -m] <process_id>. If you only execute the ShowDlls <process_id> command, then the utility simply analyzes the process you indicate by ID, and displays a list of all DLL files being used by it.

In addition to the file name and format of each DLL item, you can find out the base address, entry point, load count, and full path on the disk to be able to track it down easily. You can instruct ShowDLLs to show all DLLs in the load order (-l switch), initialization order (-i switch) or memory order (-m).

There are no other noteworthy options provided by this application. Unfortunately, the current version of the program is capable of listing DLLs from 32-bit processes only. For the 64-bit ones, you get an error message.

All aspects considered, ShowDLLs offers a simple solution for identifying all DLLs being used by a running process. It worked smoothly on Windows 10 in our evaluation. Since this is a console-based program, it can be easily used for scripting and automation.