There are some new set of DLLs brought in Windows 7 which actually calls the some of the well known core DLLs like Kernel32.dll, user32.dll, GDI32.dll etc…
The API’s exported from the above dlls were considered to be Win32 API’s. The new set of DLLs with the prefix 'api-ms-win-core', 'api-ms-win-service' and 'api-ms-win-security' were brought in Windows 7 to categories relevant APIs into one dll.
For example,
* File related APIs were grouped into api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
* Registry related API’s are into api-ms-win-core-localregistry-l1-1-0.dll
* Thread APIs are now into api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
In fact the API names have not changed. So this may not trouble existing window programmers (if any :).
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