The DLL wasn't locked. It was being strangled by a ghost.
Elias had tried everything. He checked the file's properties—no "Unblock" checkbox. He ran Unblock-File in PowerShell. Nothing. He disabled SmartScreen. Nothing. It was as if the file itself had been cursed.
Elias leaned back. The solution was brutal but clean. He couldn't unblock the file; he had to remove the bouncer. how to unblock dlls
He opened dumpbin /dependents core_audio_v2.dll . The list was short: kernel32.dll , user32.dll , and a third, strange one: zone_identifier_proxy.dll .
His current nightmare was a DLL called core_audio_v2.dll . The DLL wasn't locked
core_audio_v2.dll was no longer blocked.
Then he saw it. The file wasn't blocked. Its dependencies were. and a third
Reboot.