Side-by-side assembly
Side-by-side assembly ( SxS , or WinSxS on Microsoft Windows ) technology is a standard for executable files in Windows 98 Second Edition , Windows 2000 , and later versions of Windows that attempts to alleviate problems ( collectively known as "DLL Hell" ) that arise from the use of dynamic-link libraries ( DLLs ) in Microsoft Windows . 
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