Thursday, August 6, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Windows 7 Possible 039 Bug 039 Discovered

HTTP:: Windows 7 Possible 039 Bug 039 Discovered
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As Windows 7 is getting closer to its launch day, more and more eyes are turning towards it. Compatibility, security or stability issues are hunted down by Microsoft and testers around the world, so that none slips in the final version. One possible bug has been recently spotted, labeled as “major” by its finder or “critical” by other voices, and it is said to be capable of altering the launch of the client. Ryan Price details the bug on his blog: “this particular issue looks strangely out of place and makes you wonder how exactly this passed through validation: To Reproduce: 1. Run an elevated CMD prompt 2. Run CHKDSK <drive letter:> /r 3. With task manager open, you should see your memory quickly gobbled away in the chkdsk.exe process until it either stops at or around 90% or it maxes completely out and crashes the computer.” According to Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky, who comments on the story, this is not a bug; Windows 7 has been designed to react th!
is way. Indeed, the high memory usage is there, but it is so for the process to be performed faster. Basically, the idea is that, if a disk needs to be checked and fixed, it means that there is a problem with it and users would like to resolve the issue as quickly as possible, and not to co...
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