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File Explorer Bug in Windows 11 Causes Memory Consumption to Peak at 99%

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2021/10/11 12:45:25 (permalink)
HardwareTimes - File Explorer Bug in Windows 11 Causes Memory Consumption to Peak at 99% Without Running Anything
 
“An old memory leak has resurfaced with the launch of Windows 11. As reported by Reddit user @gyrohan269, opening and then closing Windows Explorer doesn’t free up the memory taken up by the app. This way, the application can take up your entire system memory if you open and close it multiple times during a session. For @gyrohan269, Windows Explorer takes up nearly 1 GB of memory after opening and closing it a few times.
 
Other users have reported a memory usage of over 90% solely due to this Windows Explorer leak. Systems with 8GB memory are seen quickly reaching a memory usage of 7.8GB, resulting in freezing and crashes. The easy solution to this problem (if you’re facing it) is to end the explorer.exe process via the task manager every time after closing the application. If your system memory consumption is close to max, then you’ll have to do a hard restart, but in most cases, this solution should work.”
 
 
My thoughts:  Have any of the post Beta testers on the forum run into this?
 


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    Re: File Explorer Bug in Windows 11 Causes Memory Consumption to Peak at 99% 2021/10/11 13:05:26 (permalink)
    Thanks for the info as I'm running Windows 11. 

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    Re: File Explorer Bug in Windows 11 Causes Memory Consumption to Peak at 99% 2021/10/11 20:18:17 (permalink)
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    Re: File Explorer Bug in Windows 11 Causes Memory Consumption to Peak at 99% 2021/10/12 08:28:21 (permalink)
    How ?  ... just How ?... do you allow this to come back without noticing...? 


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    Re: File Explorer Bug in Windows 11 Causes Memory Consumption to Peak at 99% 2021/10/12 12:53:19 (permalink)
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    Re: File Explorer Bug in Windows 11 Causes Memory Consumption to Peak at 99% 2021/10/14 08:04:48 (permalink)
    Maybe it's how I configure my system by disabling things I don't need, want, or use, but I'm not seeing this.  I've opened and closed File Explorer 30 or 40 times to test this out & not seeing it.  Launching Explorer uses between 120 - 130MB and closing it releases it.  Repeating this many, many times with the same result.


     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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