Common Windows API libraries
KERNEL32 contains base functions of Windows that are responsible for file I/O operations and memory management, including processes and threads management. Some functions are helpers for calling more native APIs in the NTDLL library.
USER32 contains functions that deal with the display and graphical interface, such as program windows, menu, and icons. It also contains functions that controls window messages.
ADVAPI32 contains functions that has to do with the Windows registry.
MSVCRT contains standard C library functions from Microsoft Visual C++ runtime, such as printf, scanf, malloc, strlen, fopen, and getch.
WS2_32, WININET, URLMON, and NETAPI32 are libraries that contain functions that have to do with networking ...
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