{"id":524,"date":"2010-12-01T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2010-12-01T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:19:10","slug":"ntdll-dll-is-open-or-in-use-by-another-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/ntdll-dll-is-open-or-in-use-by-another-application","title":{"rendered":"ntdll.dll is open or in use by another application"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Windows_Xp_Sp3_download1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-525 img-responsive\" title=\"Windows_Xp_Sp3_download[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Windows_Xp_Sp3_download1-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Windows_Xp_Sp3_download1-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Windows_Xp_Sp3_download1.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While trying the install Service Pack 3 on the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Computer the following error messaged showed\r\n\r\n&#8216;c:\\windows\\system32\\<em>ntdll.dll&#8217; is open<\/em> or in use by another applications&#8217;\r\n\r\nI was installing Service Pack 3 Through Windows Update. I downloaded and ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnet.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fsysinternals%2Fbb896653.aspx&amp;ei=Sjn2TNugCMOnhAfd7aXjBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNHOrBM9nMXCxTSHvpqueGSDpTTkHw&amp;sig2=xYnB2ZGa0p1y8knknQ5ClA\">Process Explorer from SysInternals<\/a> , This let me use the Find function for searching for process&#8217; calling the <em>ntdll.dll <\/em>file. After looking at the list , and finding out the process with the type &#8220;HANDLE&#8221; I found the process using this DLL was infact internet explorer ( iexplorer.exe)! Since this update came from Windows Update there was\u00a0obviously\u00a0an issue.\r\n\r\nTo resolve the issue , I downloaded \u00a0the standalone\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4\">Network Version of SP3<\/a> and made sure Internet Explorer was closed before I reran setup\r\n\r\nReran SP3 and the update worked fine!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trying the install Service Pack 3 on the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Computer the following error messaged showed &#8216;c:\\windows\\system32\\ntdll.dll&#8217; is open or in use by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[318,317,319],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-ntdll-dll","tag-ntdll-dll-is-open","tag-service-pack-3-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}