Disk usage 100 windows 10 reddit

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The system protection means it will not easily get deleted or corrupted. That is why Ntoskrnl.exe is such a protected system file. It contains the cache manager, the executive, the kernel, the security reference monitor, the memory manager, and the scheduler. Ntoskrnl.exe (Short for Windows NT operating system kernel) otherwise known as kernel image, is a system application file that provides the kernel and executive layers of the Windows NT kernel space, and is responsible for various system services such as hardware virtualization, process and memory management, thus making it a fundamental part of the system.

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Windows 10 is a large operating system, but how does it handle memory operations so well? This can be owed to the ntoskrnl.exe memory handler. What is Ntoskrnl.exe and what does it do?