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As most of you know, Windows 7 is expected to hit technet and MSDN by August 6th to a much anticipated welcome. However, this particlar issue looks strangely out of place and makes you wonder how exactly this passed through validation:

To Reproduce:

Run an elevated CMD prompt
Run CHKDSK <drive letter:> /r
With task manager open, you should see your memory quickly gobbled away in the chkdsk.exe process until it either stops at or around 90% or it maxes completely out and crashes the computer.

**Update**

I was told that this is by design in Windows 7 because the OS is capable and uses more memory. According to my source, because they intended to speed up chkdsk , they did so through using more memory. However, it could be a bug somewhere in OS or a driver bug but seeing as it happens across a wide range of setups, it doesn’t seem to be 3^rd party related. This is the information I have been told by my MS contact. I can also verify this issue goes all the way back to Build 7201.

Without further adieu, Exhibit A:

So as Microsoft nears the end of development for Windows 7 we are now at the magical RTM build of 7600. Last week build 7600.16384 leaked and many assumed it was the final RTM Build that was to be signed off as gold and final. After talking to a few contacts within the program and developers, they gladly pointed out that it is NOT the RTM build. As some remember Windows Vista did a very similar trick during its RTM phase where there were a number of complied builds as ‘6000′. Ultimately it was settled that 16386 would be the build MS would send to manufacturing.

There are a number of sites however claiming that July 13th was the sign off date which was not necessarily true. Instead it was noted that it would be THIS month not a specific date. So as this has come to pass, another build: 7600.16385 has leaked out from a Chinese source.

Hopefully in the next few days we’ll know more but as of right now there is not a definitive RTM build that is gold.

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