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What is the current limit of the number of open files in Windows 10? In DOS the number is 15.

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On 64-bit Windows in theoretically the maximum number of handles that a process can open is 2³², because handles have 32 significant bits. However in reality it has been limited to 16,777,216 (2²⁴) per process. On 32-bit Windows the limit is likely 2¹⁶

To support 16-bit programs, 32-bit Windows only generates a handles that have 16 significant bits -- the 16 upper bits are ignored by the OS (even though programs are not to be taking advantage of this fact). So no program can interact with more than 216 objects, which is actually rather low.

However, in order to improve this, 64-bit Windows increased the number of significant bits in a handle to 32. But now that means that handles cannot be passed to 16-bit programs without loss of information. So 16-bit programs cannot run on 64-bit Windows.

Why can't a 64 bit OS run a 16 bit application?

For network connection the maximum number of open files per session is 16384. This can be checked with the net config server command

Further reading

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles


• Is there a limit on number of open files in Windows


• Windows Server 2008 R2 max open files limit


• How many Windows handles in use is "too many"?


• Increasing no of file handles in Windows 7 64 bit


• Why is the limit of window handles per process 10,000?

The current file handle usage can easily be seen in task manager

Note that in DOS the number can be changed depending on the settings in config.sys and not fixed at 15

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  FILES (DOS 2.0 and DR DOS 3.31 and higher; OS/2)
  
  
  
  
  • Specifies the number of files that can be opened at once.
  
  
  
  


• 
  FILESHIGH (MS-DOS 7.0 and DR-DOS 7.02 and higher[6] and FreeDOS only)
  
  
  
  
  • Same as FILES, but explicitly loads file handles into upper memory.
  
  
  
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS#CONFIG.SYS_directives

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On 64-bit Windows in theoretically the maximum number of handles that a process can open is 2³², because handles have 32 significant bits. However in reality it has been limited to 16,777,216 (2²⁴) per process. On 32-bit Windows the limit is likely 2¹⁶

To support 16-bit programs, 32-bit Windows only generates a handles that have 16 significant bits -- the 16 upper bits are ignored by the OS (even though programs are not to be taking advantage of this fact). So no program can interact with more than 216 objects, which is actually rather low.

However, in order to improve this, 64-bit Windows increased the number of significant bits in a handle to 32. But now that means that handles cannot be passed to 16-bit programs without loss of information. So 16-bit programs cannot run on 64-bit Windows.

Why can't a 64 bit OS run a 16 bit application?

For network connection the maximum number of open files per session is 16384. This can be checked with the net config server command

Further reading

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles


• Is there a limit on number of open files in Windows


• Windows Server 2008 R2 max open files limit


• How many Windows handles in use is "too many"?


• Increasing no of file handles in Windows 7 64 bit


• Why is the limit of window handles per process 10,000?

The current file handle usage can easily be seen in task manager

Note that in DOS the number can be changed depending on the settings in config.sys and not fixed at 15

• 
  FILES (DOS 2.0 and DR DOS 3.31 and higher; OS/2)
  
  
  
  
  • Specifies the number of files that can be opened at once.
  
  
  
  


• 
  FILESHIGH (MS-DOS 7.0 and DR-DOS 7.02 and higher[6] and FreeDOS only)
  
  
  
  
  • Same as FILES, but explicitly loads file handles into upper memory.
  
  
  
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS#CONFIG.SYS_directives

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On 64-bit Windows in theoretically the maximum number of handles that a process can open is 2³², because handles have 32 significant bits. However in reality it has been limited to 16,777,216 (2²⁴) per process. On 32-bit Windows the limit is likely 2¹⁶

To support 16-bit programs, 32-bit Windows only generates a handles that have 16 significant bits -- the 16 upper bits are ignored by the OS (even though programs are not to be taking advantage of this fact). So no program can interact with more than 216 objects, which is actually rather low.

However, in order to improve this, 64-bit Windows increased the number of significant bits in a handle to 32. But now that means that handles cannot be passed to 16-bit programs without loss of information. So 16-bit programs cannot run on 64-bit Windows.

Why can't a 64 bit OS run a 16 bit application?

For network connection the maximum number of open files per session is 16384. This can be checked with the net config server command

Further reading

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles


• Is there a limit on number of open files in Windows


• Windows Server 2008 R2 max open files limit


• How many Windows handles in use is "too many"?


• Increasing no of file handles in Windows 7 64 bit


• Why is the limit of window handles per process 10,000?

The current file handle usage can easily be seen in task manager

Note that in DOS the number can be changed depending on the settings in config.sys and not fixed at 15

• 
  FILES (DOS 2.0 and DR DOS 3.31 and higher; OS/2)
  
  
  
  
  • Specifies the number of files that can be opened at once.
  
  
  
  


• 
  FILESHIGH (MS-DOS 7.0 and DR-DOS 7.02 and higher[6] and FreeDOS only)
  
  
  
  
  • Same as FILES, but explicitly loads file handles into upper memory.
  
  
  
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS#CONFIG.SYS_directives

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answered Sep 8 '18 at 2:56

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On 64-bit Windows in theoretically the maximum number of handles that a process can open is 2³², because handles have 32 significant bits. However in reality it has been limited to 16,777,216 (2²⁴) per process. On 32-bit Windows the limit is likely 2¹⁶

To support 16-bit programs, 32-bit Windows only generates a handles that have 16 significant bits -- the 16 upper bits are ignored by the OS (even though programs are not to be taking advantage of this fact). So no program can interact with more than 216 objects, which is actually rather low.

However, in order to improve this, 64-bit Windows increased the number of significant bits in a handle to 32. But now that means that handles cannot be passed to 16-bit programs without loss of information. So 16-bit programs cannot run on 64-bit Windows.

Why can't a 64 bit OS run a 16 bit application?

For network connection the maximum number of open files per session is 16384. This can be checked with the net config server command

Further reading

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles


• Is there a limit on number of open files in Windows


• Windows Server 2008 R2 max open files limit


• How many Windows handles in use is "too many"?


• Increasing no of file handles in Windows 7 64 bit


• Why is the limit of window handles per process 10,000?

The current file handle usage can easily be seen in task manager

Note that in DOS the number can be changed depending on the settings in config.sys and not fixed at 15

• 
  FILES (DOS 2.0 and DR DOS 3.31 and higher; OS/2)
  
  
  
  
  • Specifies the number of files that can be opened at once.
  
  
  
  


• 
  FILESHIGH (MS-DOS 7.0 and DR-DOS 7.02 and higher[6] and FreeDOS only)
  
  
  
  
  • Same as FILES, but explicitly loads file handles into upper memory.
  
  
  
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS#CONFIG.SYS_directives

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