title: Increasing no of file handles in Windows 7 64 bit
body: <p>I have an application that has 10000 threads running at a time. Each thread opens the same file. The problem is whenever I launch the application with 10K threads, the application terminates after creating 500 threads(<strong>file handles</strong>). I have tried the same application on Linux and is running fine after I tweaked the <strong>ulimit</strong> option. Is there any limit on the file handles a process can open in Windows? I have been googling and all I get is to change the entries in <strong>config.nt</strong> file in <strong>C\Windows\System32...</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>But I found out that the said file does not exist for 64 bit OS. Is there any way that I can change the limit in Windows?</p>
  
  <p>My OS is WINDOWS 7 64 bit.</p>