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Many people who are studying error messages and knowledgebase of microsoft operating system stumbles on this term “commit charge”. But what the hell is commit charge ?

As per Wikipedia:

In computing, commit charge is a term used in Microsoft Windows
operating systems to describe the total amount of virtual
 address space for which the backing store is the pagefile.

In laymen’s terms, commit charge is the current amount of used virtual memory. It can be considered the sum total of the RAM and pagefile needed to store the private virtual address space allocated by all running processes, if they actually used all they allocate. Most applications allocate more than they actually use. Memory for program code, DLL’s etc. is not included in this total.
Windows keeps track of the commit charge to make sure that there is some place to store all of this potential data, just in case the running applications were to use all the space they have allocated. The commit limit is the size of RAM, minus some overhead, plus the size of the pagefile. Not all of RAM is available to the commit charge.

The important thing to remember about the commit charge is that it must always be below the commit limit. If it hits the limit bad things will happen, such as application or system failures. Since the commit charge doesn’t represent anything physical it is of little importance to performance.

You’ll observe that windows vista is very slow at file copy and file transfer. Why windows vista takes more time to move files ? There are some legitimate reasons that makes windows take too much time to transfer files in vista.

First windows vista takes time to check the files and folders and security credentials. This delays your file copying or moving operation. UAC is responsible for the most of the delay in the file transfer. If you want to speed up file transfer in vista then you need to use external file managers or file copying softwares. I’ve managed to find two softwares that will let you copy files instantly (and even faster than default windows vista file transfer speed).

- Terracopy
- Creative element powertools

Sometimes you’ll notice that windows explorer have problem with remembering settings in vista. You can easily see the settings reverting back to the default settings. This is quite pain for you to each time manage some folders for the view and then get the settings reverted. In order to avoid this follow the procedure shown below:

- Open the Folder options window
- Turn on the view tab
- Now turn on the “remember each folder’s view settings tab”.
- Now click Ok.

You’ll find windows explorer remembering settings for 30 folders approximately. Here you’ll find that your settings are used to override the default ones.