Windows 10: SOLVED Explorer.exe taking all memory until it crashes while doing intensive I/O - Windows...

My old tools were causing the trouble, updating them to work with newer system solved the issue.


Hi,


I have a fresh Windows Server 2019 Installation and when using my compression tools explorer.exe gets bigger and bigger until it eats whole 64 gb ram and crashes system, system logs don't say anything only that there was a critical shutdown due to no response with a failed memory dump. Swap file is set to auto, tested with static as well with over 70 GB.


When I kill explorer.exe everything works fine but when I execute it, it's starting to eat memory in fast linear fashion.


I have tried using TotalCommander instead of explorer.exe as my file explorer but with the same result, total commander was behaving the same way.


I have since reinstalled the whole system from scratch, installed latest updates and tested again with my portable tools - same result.

It also allocated lot of memory when I installed and run VM from Oracle, it didn't release the memory after closing the VM.


When looked at the process of explorer.exe it shows a lot of I/O and shcore.dll being the source of problem in explorer.exe, when I unload this module it will calm down for a little while and come again to eat memory.


I did not had this problem on Windows Server 2012.


Disk Configuration: 2x 1 TB NVMe SSD, CPU i9-9900K, 64 GB DDR4 RAM


Before installing system from scratch I have tested file integrity and originality - everything was ok.


If this is some new "feature" of Windows caching, please tell me how to turn it off. Back in the days in 2008 server edition it could be done by using DynCache.


Everything is up to date, no possibility of malware, compression tools are not the problem as they work fine on previous 2012 edition.







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Effective Way to Solve the File Explorer Crashes Issue

You can try the following steps:

1. Tap down the Windows button first to activate the search bar.
2. After that, in the search bar type control, and then click on the top-most search result, that is on Control Panel.
3. Next, in the search bar type file.
4. Now, from the search results click on File Explorer Options.
5. Then, click on the Clean button.
6. Lastly, click on Apply and then on OK.

References: https://www.****/knowledge/solved-windows-10-file-explorer-crash-easy-way/