In this case the software will typically have a default value hard coded somewhere. A developer has many options here and there may be no easy way to see what it is. This is easy to do in software,...
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In this case the software will typically have a default value hard coded somewhere. A developer has many options here and there may be no easy way to see what it is. This is easy to do in software,...
As mentioned the "Program Files" folder is used for 64 bit applications while "Program Files (x86)" is used for 32 bit applications. An important reason for this is to separate 32 and 64 bit...
FAT32 was released in 1996. In 2022 a 4GB isn't particularly large but in 1996 it was huge. Many people didn't have hard drives that large. File systems and operating systems have compromises based...
If a big company wants to buy a large number of computers thay can get pretty much anything they want. Your choice of OS, no OS, custom case, your own brand name, and more. Just as long as you are...
I don't think you are likely to see this in Explorer. This isn't difficult to implement and Microsoft developers are well aware of how to do it. But there are some potentially serious issues,...
The DLL has not changed. A DLL cannot be changed by editing a few bytes. That would take essentially a rewrite.
The issue is with the exe64bitdetector which is itself a 32 bit program. This has...
Exactly what did you do and what leads you to believe that the 64 bit DLL changed to 32 bit. What you describe is impossible. Windows is a complex OS and it is easy to misunderstand what you see....
There is no shortcut. A 64 bit DLL cannot be used in a 32 bit OS. To use such a DLL it must first be converted. I would be very surprised to hear that there was software that could do this....
Malok is correct.
Converting a 64 bit DLL to 32 bit would not be any simpler. In fact, depending on what the DLL does, it could be far more difficult. I have not heard of any software that can do...
The "Temporary Internet Files" folder isn't just used by Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer will be retired but many applications use some of it's components and I don't expect they will be removed...
The Group Policy editor should NOT show the registry settings. That is not it's purpose.
The original purpose of the Group policy was to control multiple computers in a domain. In this case the...
The purpose of the Group Policy is not an alternate view of the registry. It was never intended to do that and it is not what it does. Group Policy controls what settings can be made in the registry....
What you are seeing is normal and as designed.
Group Policy was first introduced in Windows 2000 and grew out of System Policy in NT4 and Windows 98. It is most useful in a large network. It...
This is the "Full row select" option in the Listview control. This is a developer, not a user option. There are many such options provided for the developer and very few of them are available to the...
If only it were that simple.
Technically there is no reason why Microsoft could not provide with Windows software like Disk Manager that would rival the very best commercial software. They...
It sounds wrong because it is.
If you are having a problem with the commit charge hitting the limit, as the OP is having, then disabling the pagefile will make the problem worse, not better. If...
Expanding a file does not require writing any data to the file itself. Only the metadata of the file will be updated and that requires little writing. When this is done the data in the expanded part...
The bottom line regarding pagefile size is that it must be large enough to accommodate the commit charge. The commit limit is pagefile size + RAM size - a small overhead, usually only a few MB....
These files are runtime support files installed and required by many applications. They can be shared by multiple applications thus saving disk space. There are other advantages as well.
In theory...
Applications use multiple processes for a variety of reasons, some of which can be quite technical. Browsers generally use them for stability. If the browser only had one process and there was a...
It has always been like this. And for good reason. As is often the case things are more complex than they may seem.
The disk space consumed by a folder is not a property of the folder but must be...
Clearly CTRL ALT DEL isn't needed on a standalone home computer. If it was Microsoft would not have provided any other option. Going back as far as XP another option has been available and is the...
Adding memory does not require any manual settings to use it efficiently. Windows manages memory dynamically according to availability and need and it does this far better than even an expert could....
Never assume that a file of zero bytes is of no importance and thus safe to delete. In some cases the mere existence of the file is what is important, not it's contents. This isn't common but it is...
I expect to fully take advantage of Ultimate Performance Mode you would need to be running a CPU bound application using multiple cores at full CPU frequency, and be able to maintain that for...