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A geeky diary....

Pip pip, chums.  Ever wanted to replace some functionality in a Windows system DLL with your own, for purposes noble or nefarious?   One way to do it is with a shim DLL, that looks and acts like the real thing but which you can hook your own functionality into on a function by function basis.  Enclosed is some C++ source that will create a shim DLL for any arbitrary DLL, replicating all of its exported functions, and (by default) calling straight through to the real system DLL.