Editing Shared library (section)

===Microsoft Windows===
[[Microsoft Windows]] checks the [[Windows registry|registry]] to determine the proper place to load DLLs that implement [[Component Object Model|COM objects]], but for other DLLs it will check the directories in a defined order. First, Windows checks the directory where it loaded the program (''private DLL''<ref name="endofdllhell"/>); any directories set by calling the <code>SetDllDirectory()</code> function; the System32, System, and Windows directories; then the current working directory; and finally the directories specified by the PATH [[environment variable]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586.aspx
 |title       = Dynamic-Link Library Search Order
 |work        = Microsoft Developer Network Library
 |publisher   = Microsoft
 |date        = 2012-03-06
 |access-date  = 2012-05-20
 |url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120509160536/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586.aspx
 |archive-date = 9 May 2012
}}</ref> Applications written for the [[.NET Framework]] (since 2002), also check the [[Global Assembly Cache]] as the primary store of shared dll files to remove the issue of [[DLL hell]].