Failed To Open Dlllist.txt For Reading Error Code 2

If you keep running into dlllist.txt issues, consider using built-in Windows tools or alternatives that don’t rely on response files.

| Purpose | Alternative Tool | Command Example | |---------|----------------|------------------| | List DLLs for a process | tasklist /m | tasklist /m /fi "PID eq 1234" | | List DLLs for all processes | Get-Process in PowerShell | Get-Process | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Modules | | Detailed DLL info | listdlls (another Sysinternals tool) | listdlls.exe explorer | | Process explorer GUI | procexp.exe (Sysinternals) | Interactive | failed to open dlllist.txt for reading error code 2

The built-in PowerShell approach avoids external files entirely: If you keep running into dlllist

Get-Process -Id 1234 | ForEach-Object  Format-Table FileName 

No dlllist.txt needed.

The program looks for dlllist.txt in its current working directory (often the folder where the .exe resides). If the file is missing, CreateFile or fopen returns INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE or NULL, and GetLastError() returns 2. No dlllist

Common reasons:

[Leave this file empty if that's the intention]

Some antivirus tools block creation/reading of .txt files used by injection tools. Temporarily disable real-time protection (just for testing) and recreate the file.