Rumors of the 'massive' memory leak in Windows 7 show up to have been tremendously exaggerated, as Mark Twain may possibly have mentioned.
While some tech sites fell more than by themselves to smirk at what was billed a 'show-stopper' for the new OS appearing on shelves in October, we tried using to replicate the fault on two devices and failed to locate any dilemma whatsoever,
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The fault lay using the Chkdsk disk utility which was noted to be gobbling up memory as if there was no tomorrow,
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Indeed, Microsoft is now advising customers to create positive they have the most recent drivers put in - which we discover it tough to believe that each one of these "technical experts" had failed to do. Certainly on two Core 2 Duo machines working the 64bit Win7 build 7100 (the RC version) right here - a desktop with an Intel 965 chipset and a laptop with an 965 Express, both with 4GB of RAM - we encountered no problems in any respect.
Chkdsk /r operating on a two terabyte secondary (not system) NTFS volume quickly gobbled up 2.1GB of memory, but levelled out there until the utility finished, as illustrated below. In the first screenshot, Chkdsk is 10 percent complete and has processed 4705 files and in the second, taken some time later later,
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Sinofsky was critical of reports using terms such as "critical" and "show-stopper" to describe the situation, and mentioned there was no reason to delay the shipping of Windows 7: "While we appreciate the drama of 'critical bug' and then the pickup of 'show-stopper' that I’ve seen, we may possibly take a step back and realise that this may not have that defcon level,
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"Bugs that are so severe as to require immediate patches and attention would have to get no workarounds and would generally be such that a large set of people would run across them in the normal course of using their PC."
He added that Microsoft would continue to 'address concerns as they arose', but that this vulnerability 'was not one of those issues'.