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Discord has started testing a drastic but necessary solution to address performance issues in its Windows desktop app. The company has launched an experiment called “restart on excessive memory use,” ...

I get to work on a number of fairly large vb6 applications, I've run into a situation where there was a pretty major overhaul of one of the applications. Now I think there is a pretty big memory leak ...

If you find that programs are slow to open, applications are slow to work, or your Windows computer is sluggish overall, a memory leak may be the reason. A memory leak occurs when the operating system ...