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In recent discussions surrounding Windows 10 and Windows 11, one executable has captured the attention of users experiencing performance issues: SecurityHealthSystray.exe. This file, representing the Security Health System Tray, is responsible for delivering critical information on your system's...

Hi, I am using Windows 10 Enterprise on an IPC. After a certain runtime I get a blackscreen and have to restart the IPC. While troubleshooting, I noticed that in the task manager, Windows Defender takes more and more memory until it is used up, and the black screen appears. If I turn off...

Memory leaks occur when the JavaScript code of an application retains more and more objects in memory that it doesn’t need any longer instead of releasing them for the browser to garbage collect (GC). For long-running apps, small memory leaks of only a few kilobytes can add up to noticeably...

Note: We’re in the process of deploying features mentioned in this post, starting with Stable 89, so it might be a little while before you see them in your channel and build. Nowadays, it’s not unusual to do almost everything online. Whether we’re connecting on video calls, doing a school...

I’m excited that you’re here to learn about what we’ve been doing to further improve Microsoft Edge and Bing! In my last post we announced our new sleeping tabs feature and I’m happy to share initial findings from our latest Beta build that a sleeping tab increases battery life by using 26% less...

Performance is essential to your success, which makes it core to ours. To help ensure the browser doesn’t slow you down, we always keep performance in mind as we continue to improve Microsoft Edge. However, for the times that your browser isn’t running as expected, we want to help you understand...

Note: We’re in the process of deploying this feature starting with today's release of Beta 88, so it might be a little while before you see it in your channel and build. New to sleeping tabs? Read more in our previous blog post. The Microsoft Edge team is on a mission to create a browser that...

Discusses memory pressure and performance issues that occur in the Resilient File System (ReFS) in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. Provides a resolution and workarounds. Continue reading...

JavaScript performance has always been a core area of focus for our team. Every release, we look for opportunities to improve end users’ browsing experience on real workloads with shorter start-up time, faster execution, and leaner memory usage. These efforts are guided by invaluable ongoing...

Hey, This started happening like a week ago, A lot of games are using all 8 gb of my memory. Unknown Battlegrounds and osiris, No mans sky and so on. They were working fine before. I am using MSI afterburner to watch the temps and my memory is slowly going up, What's causing this? My specs GTX...

At Build this year, we gave a sneak preview of a set of new APIs designed to provide diagnostic information about running apps. You can see the videos Link Removed and Link Removed – but note that these were based on a pre-release implementation. So, while the Build videos are still correct on...

I'm at the edge of giving up. No matter what I do, what I uninstall or install, how many antivirus scans I do, how closely I watch for what's causing spikes, I can't fix these performance issues. Huge swathes of my CPU and Memory usage are lost on totally invisible processes. I have 8gb of RAM...

Since we first started work on the Chakra JavaScript engine, it has been our mission and priority to make JavaScript faster for the real world web, and to continuously improve the experience of browsing in Microsoft Edge (and previously Internet Explorer). We’ve had a very busy year, with...

Starting in EdgeHTML 14, coming with this summer’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the highly anticipated Fetch APIs. This represents the first step in our planned journey to supporting Service Worker in a future release. You can preview the Fetch APIs in Link Removed...

Slow pages lose users: research from Bing and Google indicates that delays as small as half a second can impact business metrics. To build fast sites, developers need powerful tools to analyze the performance of their sites and debug issues. Link Removed are a great start and the primary tools...

My laptop did an automatic upgrade to Windows 10 Home recently; formerly it was Windows 7 Home Premium. Since this change, the touch pad (HP G56) will not scroll on any document or web page. When I attempt to update the driver I am told it is up to date and also that the device is working...

I noticed my Windows updates no longer works it just sits there eating up memory. I suspect it may be the indirect cause of recent BSODs. After the system boots up and runs a little while usage jumps alot. I restored an image from April and it tested OK with SFC Scanow. I'm still using IE9 . If...

I was using my computer like normal and everything was fine, couldn't connect to a friend's WiFi so I restarted my computer. It took over 30 minutes to boot back up, with half that time being on my desktop loading applications. Everything that I tried to click was being very slow. I Ctrl-Alt-Del...

Hi all, Anyone noticed when updating manually that there's a complete lack of information? For example it takes a while to compile a list of available updates for your machine, and while it's doing it you don't really get any feedback, of course if you know what to look for you can see the...

I upgraded to windows 10, but for some reason a large amount of my ram is being used as well. I start up my pc at 70% some times. I have 8gb of ram. Also, if i were to downgrade back to 8.1, would the ram still get consumed as much? Regedit, going to NDU and then to start and changing it to 4...