Why can't Microsoft operating systems come with embedded Registry cleaner?

I have created a custom "panel" (it doesn't actually inherit from Panel). It
is a kind of grid which needs to be scrolled both horizontally and
vertically, and since it can contain a large number of elements, it needs to
be virtualizing.

I have a number of questions related to making objects available for
collection by the GC. I have an application that is leaking memory to the
point of filling up all 3 heap generations and then throwing
OutOfMemoryException.

I am hoping someone can explain to me what is going on behind the scenes
between these two scenarios that would cause such a difference.
We have been piecemeal upgrading a large application from VB6 to .NET.  Over
time we've upgraded each of the (100 or so) modal screens and ...

hey, when i want to play a music file or a video file on windows media player
or in the media center it takes too much time to begin playing the
file...even when the media player is playing a list of songs...how can i fix
this problem ? thanks

When I call the PerformanceCounter remotely for LogicalDisk % Free Space, I
am receiving number of Free Megabytes instead.
PerformanceCounter pcPercentFree = new PerformanceCounter("LogicalDisk", "%
Free Space", driveLetter, machineName);

We are currently facing an issue with .Net Remoting connected application,
here is the situation:
We have a central server running some windows services who host some
components exposed with .Net Remoting.

I understand from all the theory that overlapped i/o is good. However, I
have not found any good resource for what it means to take advantage of it
from System.Net.Sockets.
I am writing an asynchronous tcp client using System.Nets.Sockets.

I need to stress test an application I've developed - are there any
libraries/classes that can do things such as limit RAM available, Disk
Space, etc. to help determine the system limits?  Since I'm developing on a
higher end system, I hope that there are either commerical or ...

Still struggling with this problem, when ever im operating on an opened
window, be
it typing or watching a film, the screen will lose its priority after five
to ten seconds and ill have to click back on to it to proceed at whatever im