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How to investigate Microsoft Edge’s memory usage on Windows 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 how Microsoft Edge is using the resources on your device and when Microsoft Edge’s resource usage is unusually high so you can get back to what you want to get done. How Microsoft Edge thinks about memory usage The memory usage of a browser can be looked at in many ways and is dependent on several factors. Here, for Microsoft Edge, the memory metrics that we are most interested in are commit and private working set. Commit is the total amount of private memory allocations made by a process. Each process’s commit is separate, [ more… ]

NVIDIA debuts GeForce RTX 30 Series laptops As part of their special event this week, NVIDIA introduced its GeForce RTX 30 Series laptops, built with the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the second generation of RTX, which fully supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This includes new Ray Tracing Cores, Tensor Cores and streaming multiprocessors to give gamers and creators the most realistic ray-traced graphics, AI-accelerated performance and greater efficiency. These laptops introduce new third generation Max-Q technologies. Max-Q is a system wide approach to provide even more performance in thin and light laptops. The technologies include NVIDIA DLSS, Dynamic Boost 2.0 and WhisperMode 2.0, which use AI algorithms to optimize the performance, power and acoustics across the CPU, GPU, GPU memory, fans and more. It also includes support for Resizable BAR, which is an advanced feature of PCI Express that enables the CPU [ more… ]

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.746 (20H2) to Beta and Release Preview Channels Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing 20H2 Build 19042.746 (KB4598242) to the Beta and Release Preview Channels for those Insiders who are on 20H2 (Windows 10 October 2020 Update). This security update includes quality improvements. Key changes include: We fixed a security vulnerability issue with HTTPS-based intranet servers. After installing this update, HTTPS-based intranet servers cannot, by default, use a user proxy to detect updates. Scans using these servers will fail if you have not configured a system proxy on the clients. If you must use a user proxy, you must configure the behavior using the policy “Allow user proxy to be used as a fallback if detection using system proxy fails.” To ensure the highest levels of security, also use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Transport Layer [ more… ]