Windows 7 Performance Tools - Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1
Internet Explorer 8 will be not only an apex of performance, but also the next major iteration of the Windows client, according to Microsoft.
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1.9.2008 Windows 7 and Windows 8 Bring New Performance Analysis and Diagnostics Tools
Microsoft insisted to put Windows Vista at least on par, if not on a superior level compared to Windows XP in terms of performance throughout 2007, in a strategy that proved little efficient
even though it also spanned to Vista SP1 and XP SP3.
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21.5.2008 VOATK TOOLS V2.0 Final
Thanks to maxdata for this download. Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business Enterprise and Ultimate for Windows Vista 32bit and 64bit.
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18.5.2007 Ballmer: Enterprise Tools Market Ours For the Taking
It's not often that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks development tools. But Ballmer is all fired up about the pending Visual Studio Team System and future potential enterprise tool revenues.
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20.11.2005 Microsoft July Security Patch Tools
The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is used to detect security bulletins not covered by MBSA including MS04-028 ..
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13.7.2006 Microsoft Makes Vista Migration Tools Available
Microsoft offers six free tools for corporate users to assess, plan, test, and deploy Windows Vista.
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24.2.2007 Microsoft Delays Virtualization Tools Rollouts
In a blog posting this morning, Microsoft general manager for virtualization strategy Mike Neil revealed his company will be pushing back some milestone dates for some of its key virtualization products.
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12.4.2007 PC Tools ThreatFire 3.0.0.15 Beta
ThreatFire is an easy-to-use application designed to protect your computer against malware such as trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and buffer overflows by intelligently detecting and blocking behavior consistent with that of malware.
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19.8.2007 20 Hidden Windows Vista Tools
The default installation of Windows Vista weighs in at approximately 8 GB. In fact, Microsoft's latest operating system won't even install with less than 15 GB of space available on the hard drive.
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30.9.2007 Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005
As we head into 2005’s home stretch, I thought I’d do a round-up of my top 10 pieces of Windows Freeware for 2005. Some of these aren’t new, but certainly what I’d consider essential. Some on the other hand, are new. I’ve tried to avoid the instantly popular ones like Firefox and Opera, although I did give way to Winamp and Konfabulator in the end. But hey, it’s my top 10. If you don’t like it, post your own.
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Google offers Web Analysis Tools for free
Google is offering webmasters full-featured, powerful analytics package from Urchin to determine how many people are visiting their sites, to view the source of referrals to your site and what they're clicking on.
In March, Google acquired Urchin Software and promptly lowered the monthly cost of the company's hosted Web analytics service, Urchin On Demand, from $495 to $199. Today, the search company is re-branding Urchin under the name Google Analytics and making it available to everyone for free.
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14.11.2005 Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
Microsoft released a pair of tools on Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.
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23.5.2007 12 Hidden Windows Vista Network Tools
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article. Windows Vista delivers an impressive line up of network tools that can be used to keep the operating system connectivity on a short leash. The total of 12 command-line tools can be used to manage all aspects of Vista networking.
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4.6.2007 Fixing Windows Vista 3 - Top Troubleshooting Tools
Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing.
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7.5.2008 Vista System Tools Survived into Windows 7 M1
Microsoft already confirmed that Windows 7 will have Windows Vista as its foundation. Like it or not, Windows 7 will be nothing more than an evolution of the current Windows client.
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27.6.2008 The next generation of Microsoft application building and Web authoring tools
What are these new tools?
The Microsoft Office and Server & Tools teams are proud to announce the introduction of two great new tools for application building and Web authoring in 2006.
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11.4.2006 Academic Resource Kit – Free Tools and Resources from Microsoft
Whether you want to build an AJAX-based web application, or a Windows game, the Academic Resource Kit is a great place to start.
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9.2.2008 Tools to Automate RapidShare Downloading for Free Users With No CAPTCHA
RapidShare CAPTCHA has always been hacked no matter how tough they made it. Usually whenever RapidShare updates their CAPTCHA, it only took a few days for third party download tools to auto recognize it. One of the toughest CAPTCHA was with cats and dogs in them and it took 3-4 weeks to be cracked. A few days after the cats and dogs CAPTCHA has been cracked, RapidShare installed a new CAPTCHA system called TEABAG_3D.
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8.7.2008 Download Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft has made available for download the July 2008 Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live tools for Visual Studio 2008.
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29.7.2008 New Tests and Tools Cooking for Windows 7 Server Clustering Features
In parallel with the Windows 7 client, the successor of Windows Vista, Microsoft is also building the next iteration of the Windows server operating system.
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9.8.2008 Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office IntelliSense Code Snippets
IntelliSense code snippets allow developers to easily create and distribute their own customized code libraries. Using the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment and the power of IntelliSense, inserting these commonly used pieces of code is an effective way to enhance your productivity.
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18.1.2006 Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools - RSAT for Vista Released
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista SP1.
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25.3.2008 Microsoft Delivers Final Versions of Free Deployment Tools for Windows Vista
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of six new deployment tools that will help expedite businesses’ migration to Windows Vista™. The recently released tools are the Microsoft® Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007, the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0, Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0, the Volume Activation Management Tool, the Key Management Service for Windows Server® 2003 and Virtual PC 2007.
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20.2.2007 Download Windows 7 RTM UI Accessibility Tools and Automations for Vista SP3
Following the general availability of Windows 7, Microsoft has started backporting bits and pieces of its latest Windows client to previous releases of the operating system.
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2.11.2009 Windows Performance Blog
As I said in yesterday’s introduction, my job as an engineer on the Windows Vista team is to improve performance. I wanted to look at a study that measure a key area that we focused on for Windows Vista – consistent responsiveness during the times that matter most to users (when starting up their machine, after being idle, and when you are under the gun running tons of apps, etc.).
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29.12.2006 Microsoft tweaks IE 7 for performance
Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule, which occurs on the Tuesday of every month.
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8.2.2007 Microsoft IE 8 - Great Performance
This morning, my editor asked why I hadn't blogged about Internet Explorer 8. My response: "Who cares?" Do you? Maybe we both should.
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27.8.2008 Windows 7 Performance Pillars
Attempting to avoid the rather sluggish experience that has become inherently associated with Windows Vista RTM, Microsoft promised, through the voice of Steven Sinofsky, that Windows 7 would not set a single “bit” out of Redmond until it would meet a set of performance criteria.
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29.8.2008 Windows 7 Performance, Explained
From startup to the way it handles hardware resources available, power consumption and applications, Windows 7 has been applauded as delivering a level of performance superior to that of Windows Vista, even as early as pre-Beta Build 6801.
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29.11.2008 Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for WinFX
Overview
The Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for WinFX (CTP) provides developers with support for building WinFX applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005.
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20.1.2006Windows Performance Tools Kit v4.1.1 Update Available
The Windows Performance Tools (WPT) Kit contains performance analysis tools that are new to the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework
3.5. The WPT Kit is useful to a broad audience, including system builders, hardware manufacturers, driver developers, and general application
developers. These tools are designed for measuring and analyzing system and application performance on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and
later.
Version 4.1.1 is an update to WPT Kit v.4.1.0, which was released as part of the
Windows Server
2008 SDK. Version 4.1.1 contains fixes for the following issues:
- Windows Performance Analyzer does not start when
double-clicking an ETL file.
- Windows Performance Analyzer does not perform power state transition analysis.
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11.02.2008Intel Launches Developer-Focused Sites
Intel on Thursday unveiled several sites for software developers, including one in which the chipmaker will share ideas and alpha code in order to
solicit feedback.
In addition, Renee James, VP of Intel's software group, said during her keynote at the Intel Developer Forum
in San Francisco, that the company had completed the acquisition of Havok, a maker of software tools for creating computer graphics. Intel had
announced last week it planned to buy the Irish company, which would operate as a subsidiary of Intel.
On the new sites, James
introduced
Whatif.intel.com, which currently has
information on performance tools that won't be available until 2009, James said. The tools include a debugger for use in cases where Java
applications can not be written entirely in the Java language, a Performance Tuning Utility, and a C++ compiler.
"We are
contributing intellectual property, our tools, our people, and our sample code to really communicate with developers," James told attendees. ..
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21.09.2007Intel firmware fixes SSD performance issues
According to an article by TechSpot, Intel has released a firmware update for two of its Solid State Drives that were suffering from performance
issues. The firmware update addresses some internal fragmentation issues, which resulted in writing speeds dropping significantly in some cases. This
fragmentation meant that the performance of the drives would decrease with time. The firmware update only applies to the Intel X18-M and X25-M SSDs,
and can be installed by using the tools provided by Intel on their website. According to the site, the firmware includes several more optimizations,
on top of the issue fix.
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14.04.2009Authors Say: Create a Culture of Performance
Last year, two Microsoft employees wrote a book to fill a gap they saw in business literature about getting the job done. Their prescription: Focus on
outcome, not the tools...
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03.09.2009Mozilla collecting all web tools together in one directory
If you're a web developer, you'll hopefully be aware that there are many helpful (and free) tools designed to progress your quest for an epic
website; the only problem with this, though, is that you have to find them. There is currently no centralized directory for all such tools, but
Mozilla's fed up of this, and has set out to build one of their own, according to MoMB (via the folks at TechCrunch). Mozilla has posted an entry
on their official blog regarding the new site, with Ben Galbraith saying, "There are an immense number of tools that have been created to help web
developers. Unfortunately, you might never know this; there's no central index of these tools.
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10.07.2009Google releases tools for throttle-spotting
Google evangelist and Net patriarch Vint Cerf this week unveiled three tools that ordinary Net users can use to see whether their ISPs are choking up
on their bandwidth. The research and evaluation tools add more fuel to the reinvigorated Net-neutrality debate...
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29.01.2009Sun's JavaFX tools to interop with Adobe
Sun Microsystems is working on interoperability between design tools from Adobe Systems and its upcoming JavaFX tools for application developers
building rich application interfaces and rich-internet applications (RIAs).
James Gosling, Sun vice president and fellow, told
Register Developer that Sun is working to ensure interoperability - rather than provide its own design tools.
"We are
putting a lot of effort into interoperability with the Adobe tools - a lot of the Adobe tools are wired into the neurons of the artists of the
world," he said. "We are not trying to be a completely isolated island that has all the tools for everybody."
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24.01.2008Amazon Beefs up EC2 With New Enterprise-appealing Tools
New auto-scaling, monitoring and load-balancing tools for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud are now in public beta, the company said Monday.
A feature called CloudWatch lets EC2 users monitor resource usage and system performance through details such as disk reads and writes, or
network traffic, Amazon said.
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18.05.2009Microsofts Business Intelligence Solutions Resonate with Enterprises
As the second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference opens, Microsoft BI tools empower information workers and drive performance at
pharmaceutical leader Merck & Co., Inc., highlighting market momentum...
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06.10.2008Windows Communication Foundation Tools for ITPros
Allan da Costa Pinto: Did you know we have time saving, ITPro tools for WCF? They ship via the Windows SDK or Visual Studio 2008. From what I hear,
these aren't your regular sample grade SDK utilities from Microsoft - they have full product level support from Microsoft. Currently, the only known
dependency is having .NET installed and the product team seems to smile when you install the tools via the SDK or VS on a dev machine and copy the
tools to other machines where they are needed. Nice!
So what are these tools?
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09.11.2007Microsoft releases update to RSAT tools for Windows 7
Those of you who are brave enough to run Windows 7 RC at work, in a domain environment, as a systems administrator will be interested to know that
Microsoft has released updates for the Remote Server Administration Tools package for Windows 7 RC. These tools allow system administrators to
manage remote, network connected, Windows servers and services such as Active Directory, Group Policy, File & Print servers, etc, from a Windows 7
machine. Microsoft previously made a beta version of their RSAT tools available for users of Windows 7 Beta.
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08.05.2009Microsoft amassing high-performance server software attack
Microsoft has built a strategy around the planned early-November release of its high-performance computing server that it hopes will be the catalyst
to deliver massive computing power for future applications.
The strategy encompasses Microsoft applying its typical mantra of
śsimplifying computingť to the costly and often complex high-performance computing world in the form of its Windows HPC Server 2008 surrounded by
Microsofts collection of applications, management wares, development tools and independent software vendor community.
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26.09.2008IIS: Troubleshooting High CPU performance issues - Part 1
One of the types of performance problems that can occur with IIS web applications is when the process hosting the web application (in IIS6 in Worker
Process Isolation Mode it is w3wp.exe) spins up the CPU utilization of the server. Usually this is associated with end users experiencing a long
period of waiting for the web content to be displayed in their web browsers. This scenario is generally referred to as a "high CPU hang".
Troubleshooting high CPU hang problems can be done with two tools: Performance Monitor, and a debugger. We use Performance Monitor to get
a 'perfmon' log of the high cpu behavior, and we use the debugger to get a hang dump of the process that is spiking the cpu. Then we analyze the
info in the perfmon log and associate it with the info in the debug dump file. Debugging user-mode dumps is a whole topic in and of itself which I
won't cover in depth here. Instead the emphasis here is on getting the right data at the right time to actually analyse. In Part 2 of this topic
I'll go through a sample analysis of a high CPU scenario.
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07.12.2007Sun Offers Free Development
Studio
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday
released version 11 of its Sun
Studio development tool, which
is now available free of
charge to all users. The
Java-based IDE includes a
graphical debugger and
performance analysis tools,
along with support for C, C++,
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18.11.2005Office 2007 Gets Visual Studio
Tools
In sync with today's public
release of the Office 2007
Beta 2 Technical Refresh, the
Developer Tools division at
Microsoft has made available
the first public beta of the
second edition of Visual
Studio Tools for Office 2005.
Users will now be able to use
VS2005 to develop managed code
add-ins for Office 2003 and
Office 2007 apps...
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15.09.2006Adobe Delivers Flash Player 9,
Flex 2
Adobe on Wednesday released
the final version of Flash
Player 9, which the company
says offers ten times better
performance through
ActionScript 3.0 and a new
ActionScript Virtual Machine.
The update provides the
backbone for Flex 2.0,
Adobe's new line of tools for
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28.06.2006Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) Beta is now available!
Eduardo Melo: This is something that of you have been waiting for a while now! Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) is essentially the WS08
version of the "Admin Pack". RSAT allows you to install many of the WS08 management tools on a Vista SP1 computer so you can remotely manage WS08
servers (full servers and server core). Some of the tools included in RSAT can also be used to manage WS03 servers as well.
More
details about RSAT are pasted below...
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29.11.2007Adobe releases time-sensitive betas of Creative Suite 4 tools
The latest betas of Adobe's Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, and Fireworks tools are now available for free download. But unless you already own CS3,
they'll only give you a brief peek at the product, before the 48-hour self-destruct timer goes off...
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27.05.2008First Microsoft VC-1 Encoder Tools Now Available From Leading Solution Providers
Today at IBC2007, Microsoft Corp. announced broad industry support for the Microsoft® VC-1 Encoder software development kit (SDK), a commercial
offering first announced at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference in April.
Leading companies in digital
delivery services and compression tools have taken advantage of the substantial quality and performance improvements delivered through the new SDK and
are building next-generation offerings that efficiently produce pristine video imagery for a variety of distribution and consumption scenarios.
Additionally recognizing the benefits of faster encoding and the value of delivering best-of-breed video quality to their customers, leading content
providers have adopted the new VC-1 Encoder technology through the use of new products and tools.
In the broadband and mobile
content distribution segments, Red Bee Media has chosen tools based on the Microsoft VC-1 Encoder from Anystream Inc. to rapidly repurpose and
streamline the delivery of high-quality, bandwidth-efficient video content for the BBCs innovative new iPlayer service.
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07.09.2007Cyber crime tool kits go on sale
Malicious hackers are producing easy to use tools that automate attacks to cash in on a boom in hi-tech crime.
On sale, say
security experts, are everything from individual viruses to comprehensive kits that let budding cyber thieves craft their own attacks.
The top hacking tools are being offered for prices ranging up to ÂŁ500. Some of the most expensive tools are sold with 12 months of technical
support that ensures they stay armed with the latest vulnerabilities...
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