An application I use appears to be using a DLL provided by another tool that I’ve installed. The error implies it’s not finding the function/symbol it wants, but I can’t figure out why it even would want to use this DLL in the first place. The dialog box I’ve pasted below says it all: the application is “YNAB 4” and the DLL it’s trying to use is one installed by the tool “Tagging for Windows”. The only instance of this DLL is in that path ending in “Tagging for Windows”.
ProcessExplorer shows a bunch of DLLs associated with YNAB, but when I try to find the actual dependency chain I can’t put it together. For instance if I run dumpbin or ldd on the executable, I get a few windows DLLs:
ldd "C:Program Files (x86)YNAB 4YNAB 4.exe"
ntdll.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7fff24ba0000)
ntdll.dll => /c/Windows/SysWOW64/ntdll.dll (0x771a0000)
wow64.dll => /c/Windows/System32/wow64.dll (0x7fff22c00000)
wow64base.dll => /c/Windows/System32/wow64base.dll (0x7fff235a0000)
wow64win.dll => /c/Windows/System32/wow64win.dll (0x7fff22af0000)
wow64con.dll => /c/Windows/System32/wow64con.dll (0x7fff22960000)
I have tried to manually recurse through these DLLs by calling ldd on each one to see which one might be using ExplorerExtension.dll, but I’ve had no luck.
Additionally, I don’t see the path to that DLL (C:Program Files (x86)Connect SoftwareTagging for Windows) in the system PATH.
I’ve been using these two tools together for years on my previous computer with no conflict at all, but with a laptop upgrade now with Windows 11 these two don’t seem to want to work together. I’ve tried uninstalling each of these: YNAB4 and Tagging for Windows, but the conflict always comes back when they’re both there.
The system PATH is:
C:Usersrhvon>PATH
PATH=C:Program FilesPython313Scripts;C:Program FilesPython313;C:Program FilesEclipse Adoptiumjdk-17.0.15.6-hotspotbin;C:Windowssystem32;C:Windows;C:WindowsSystem32Wbem;C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0;C:WindowsSystem32OpenSSH;C:Program Files (x86)NVIDIA CorporationPhysXCommon;C:Program FilesNVIDIA CorporationNVIDIA appNvDLISR;C:Program Filesdotnet;C:Program Files (x86)Bitvise SSH Client;C:Program FilesPerforce;C:Program FilesGitcmd;C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits10Windows Performance Toolkit;C:UsersrhvonAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsApps;
