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 Performance Blog
As I said in yesterdays 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 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 Windows Vista Performance and Tuning
Windows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and overall system responsiveness. By striking a balance between speed and responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance that has the greatest positive impact on the systems usability.
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31.7.2008 Windows 7 -- Approach to System Performance
Many folks have commented and written email about the topic of performance of Windows. The dialog has been wide rangingfolks consistently want performance to improve (of course).
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28.8.2008 Squeezing Every Drop of Performance Out of Windows 7
In the sense in which Microsoft is building Windows 7 as the evolution of Windows Vista, the next iteration of the Windows client will perform as if on steroids, compared to its precursor.
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17.12.2008 Windows 7 beta 1 performance test
How does Windows 7 beta 1 compare to Vista and XP in terms of performance? Thats a question thats been hitting my inbox regularly over the past few weeks. Lets see if we cant answer it!
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2.1.2009 Windows Vista Imaging and Installation Performance
Ideally, installation of an operating system is two fairly simple steps. First, copy all the OS files to the hard disk.
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4.10.2006 Windows 7 on Steroids Next-Generation Performance Boosters
Yes, the silence around Windows 7 is certainly deafening, disconcerting and certainly a source of frustration for end users, but Microsoft is building the next iteration of Windows.
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20.5.2008 The Raw Performance Parallel Universe of Windows 7
Windows 7 more so than any other Windows client will be at the core of the transition to manycore hardware.
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11.10.2008 Windows 7 Increased Performance and Optimal Use of Available Hardware
icrosoft is optimizing Windows 7 in order to increase performance, and, in this context, the dispatcher lock is one of the components that has got cut off.
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6.1.2009 Building a High Performance Windows 7 PC
With Windows 7 release candidate just around the corner, the other day I was asked to spec out a high performance PC suitable for Windows 7 64-bit, This system would also be a great Vista system.
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15.4.2009 Understanding Windows 7 New Levels of Performance and Reliability
For an operating system that required unmatched hardware resources, Windows Vista failed to translate the horsepower available into sheer speed. The same is not the case for Windows 7, as the evolution from Vista brings new levels of performance and reliability.
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11.8.2009 Network Diagnostics Tool for Windows
The Network Diagnostics for Windows XP tool analyzes information about your network connectivity to help you troubleshoot network-related problems with your computer. Typically you will do this along with a support professional, either on the phone or over the internet. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
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25.7.2006 Final Names for Windows Vista Performance Features
Windows PC Accelerators is the new term that encompasses Windows Vista's new performance-enhancing technologies.
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7.4.2006 Windows 7 Speech Recognition Profile Tool
Microsoft made available for download an updated version of its Windows Speech Recognition Profile Tool tailored to the next iteration of the Windows client.
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29.5.2009 Windows 7 Activation Tool Kit BETA 1.8
Orbit30 releases a Windows 7 activation tool and a Windows Vista / 7 tweaker. - Windows 7 Activation Tool Kit BETA 1.8 | 25.4 Mb
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23.7.2009 12 Tweaks - Squeeze Every Last Drop of Performance Out of Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a resource hog. Microsofts latest operating system will swallow every last bit of hardware resources you throw at it in the race for a top user experience, a concept synonymous with high performance.
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15.9.2007 Check PC Performance Details with WinSAT in Windows 7 or Vista
Since Windows Vista, including in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) has been added into the operating system. WinSAT is a free benchmarking tool that measures various computer performance ratings, characteristics and capabilities, and display the ratings as Windows Experience Index or WEI score.
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20.4.2009 BITS Repair Tool for Windows Vista Available updated
The BITS Repair Tool will help you fix a problem caused by the corruption of BITS state files. The problem stops the host process for Windows Services, which prevents you from using BITS to transfer files. Thanks to pacpis for this download.
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2.9.2007 Microsoft hopes new photo tool will boost Windows
Microsoft likes digital photography enthusiasts as customers, and on Thursday plans to release a free new utility designed to keep them wedded to Windows.
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1.5.2008 Norton Removal Tool for Windows 2009.0.5.26
Freeware - Norton Removal Tool will remove a failed installation or a damaged Norton product.
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16.2.2009 How To Remove and Disable Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 7 and Windows Vista comes with a memory diagnostic utility named as Windows Memory Diagnostic. Windows Memory Diagnostic is an utility that capable of scan, check and diagnose computers memory subsystem including physical RAM modules or sticks.
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5.10.2009 Windows 7 RTM USB/DVD Download Tool Available
Microsoft is offering a free tool designed to streamline the creation of bootable Windows 7 RTM DVDs or USBs.
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23.10.2009 Microsoft Windows 7 download tool may have violated GPL
According to a report by Rafael Rivera, Microsoft's recently released Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool has used GPL code illegally.
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10.11.2009 Microsoft releases the Windows Vista Performance and Reliability fix packages
These are the fixes that leaked last week, now the fix packs are publicly available (Validation Required).
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8.8.2007 Windows XP SP3 Yields Performance Gains Over Vista SP1
After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1 (see previous post), we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS.
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24.11.2007 Windows 7 Search Performance Superior to Vista SP1 and XP SP3
Get ready for the Windows 7 indexer on steroids, as Microsoft will deliver the first taste of the operating system to the world at the end of this month.
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14.10.2008 Windows 7 build 7057 - Performance that blasts past XP, Vista
Over the weekend Ive been spending time with the latest leaked build of Windows 7 - build 7057. While this isnt the release candidate (RC) build that some people claim it is, this build is certainly pretty close to being RC.
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16.3.2009Microsoft Windows 7 download tool may have violated GPL
According to a report by Rafael Rivera, Microsoft's recently released Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool has used GPL code illegally. The tool,
which has been pulled by Microsoft, allows end users to upgrade to Windows 7 in an easy way. Rivera states "while poking through the UDF-related
internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool.
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10.11.2009VMware benchmark tool raises fairness questions
VMware is making a free
benchmarking tool available to
IT professionals today to
evaluate the performance of
virtualisation technology in
their datacentres. Meanwhile,
it seeks to assure competitors
that the benchmarking
standards will be fair to all
of them.
VMmark is
available for a free
download and can be used
to determine how well
virtualisation software works
with any of six typical
datacentre workloads: file
server, e-mail server, web
server, a stand-by server, an
online transaction processing
(OLTP) database and a Java
order entry system. VMmark
runs on either Linux or
Windows.
VMware
shared a prototype of VMmark
in October 2006 with members
of the Standard Performance
Evaluation (SPEC), an industry
group that establishes
performance benchmarks so
customers can evaluate
products. At that time, SPEC
had just formed a working
group to develop benchmarks
for virtualisation software.
It is still working on those
benchmarks...
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23.07.2007Works with Tool for Windows Server 2008
The Works with tool is a time and cost-saving resource for developers and IT Pros to determine application readiness on Windows Server 2008. Within
two to four hours the tool compares an application with Microsofts application compatibility criteria and provides a detailed summary. The Works
with tool can be applied to both commercial and custom in-house developed applications and helps provide IT Professionals increased confidence to
deploy applications on Windows Server 2008.
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29.05.2008Windows Live OneCare Firewall Repair Tool
This support tool is intended for customers whose OneCare firewall reports that it cannot install a required upgrade or cannot turn on the firewall.
This tool is NOT intended to diagnose or treat more specific functionality issues such as opening or closing ports, allowing applications, or
otherwise.
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22.11.2007Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) - October 2006
The Microsoft Windows
Malicious Software Removal
Tool checks Windows XP,
Windows 2000, and Windows
Server 2003 computers for and
helps remove infections by
specific, prevalent malicious
software-including Blaster,
Sasser, and Mydoom. When the
detection and removal process
is complete, the tool displays
a report describing the
outcome, including which, if
any, malicious software was
detected and removed. The tool
creates a log file named
mrt.log in the %WINDIR%debug
folder.
This tool
is not a replacement for an
anti-virus product. To help
protect your computer, you
should use an anti-virus
product.
Microsoft
will release an updated
version of this tool on the
second Tuesday of each month.
New versions will be made
available through this web
page, Windows Update, and the
Malicious Software Removal
Tool Web site on
Microsoft.com.
The
user must be an administrator
to run this tool. This tool
will not run on any version of
Windows 98, Windows ME, or
Windows NT 4.0.
Note that this download is
now a multi-lingual tool. For
all supported languages, the
same tool will show the
correct language depending on
the language of the operating
system.
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11.10.2006Troubleshooting tool for Java offered
Sun on Tuesday announced availability of Java VisualVM, an open-source GUI tool for troubleshooting and profiling Java applications. Users can view
detailed information about Java applications while they are running on a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Billed as an all-in-one troubleshooting tool,
VisualVM integrates several command line JDK (Java Development Kit) tools and profiling capabilities. It enhances monitoring and performance analysis,
according to Sun.
"After eight months of frantic development since VisualVM Preview 1 was released, I'm happy to announce the general
availability of JDK 6 Update 7 Java VisualVM and VisualVM 1.0," said Luis-Miguel Alventosa, a Sun senior software engineer, in a blog. Offered as
part of Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) Update 7, Java VisualVM provides a visual diagnostic tool for development and production environments. It
includes such technologies as jvmstat, which provides lightweight performance and configuration instrumentation to the HotSpot JVM, as well as Java
Management Extensions and the NetBeans profiler.
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09.07.2008Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool Feb. 2008 CTP
The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool is a productivity tool that helps architects and system designers to generate models of an
application that contribute to minimized TCO. These models include configuration, instrumentation, health, and performance information. The Team
System Management Model Designer Power Tool also assists developers to implement the required instrumentation, and create management packs for
monitoring systems such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
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22.02.2008New data: 1 in 3 business PCs drop Vista for Windows XP
When Microsoft stopped selling new licenses to Windows XP on June 30, it gave users and PC makers a "downgrade" loophole so that those who wanted XP
could still get it, even though they still had to buy a Vista license.
According to data from the exo.performance.network,
35 percent of Vista-equipped PCs
have been downgraded to Windows XP. "That's way out of proportion for even the dramatically unpopular Windows Vista," says
Randall C. Kennedy, an InfoWorld contributing editor, whose company Devil Mountain Software developed the Windows Sentinel
tool and analyzes the exo.performance.network data. (More than 3,000 PCs are monitored worldwide using the tool, in both the
free InfoWorld Windows Sentinel version and in the more extensive version provided to Devil Mountain clients.)
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18.08.2008Using the Network Diagnostics
Tool
Columnist and MVP Charlie
Russel discusses the new
Network Diagnostics tool for
Windows XP, which should help
reduce frustrations caused by
networking problems...
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01.08.2006Microsoft: Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update
Vista’s performance is one of those topics that won’t be exhausted until Windows Seven hits RTM. It all comes down to trade-offs. Ever
since the features of Vista were finalized, Microsoft tried to tip the scale the other way by focusing on performance, with the obvious limitation of
not disabling any services. Updates regarding performance and stability are numerous, but most have not hit Windows Update as they are not quite ready
(preview releases). The Windows Serviceability Team wants feedback on one such update, available for download at the Microsoft Download Center, before
its expected release on Windows Update in January.
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13.12.2007Researcher offers tool to hide malware in .Net
A computer security researcher has released an upgraded tool that can simplify the placement of difficult-to-detect malicious software in Microsoft's
.Net framework on Windows computers.
The tool, called .Net-Sploit 1.0, allows for modification of .Net, a piece of software
installed on most Windows machines that allows the computers to execute certain types of applications.
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17.04.2009Windows 7 HD and SSD Performance Analyzed
Today we're going to look at how various types of disks perform under Windows 7, both of the traditional platter based variety and new solid state
disks. We're not only curious about how disk performance changes between the operating systems, but if Windows 7's new solid-state specific
optimizations and tuning give you even greater performance compared to Vista.
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29.05.2009Microsoft Rebrands Online AV
Scanner
Microsoft on Monday rebranded
the Windows Live Safety Center
under its recently launched
"OneCare" product. The
free online tool checks a
computer for viruses and makes
tune-ups to improve
performance. Windows Live
OneCare safety scanner can be
used an unlimited number of
times...
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15.08.2006Microsoft: Sorry we used GPLv2 code illegally
Microsoft tonight issued an update on the reports that the company used open source code in their Windows 7 USB/DVD tool, illegally. Neowin
originally reported earlier this week that Microsoft had pulled the tool after complains by Rafael Rivera over some of the content of the Windows 7
USB/DVD download tool. Microsoft issued the following statement regarding the reports: After looking at the code in question, we are now able to
confirm this was indeed the case, although it was not intentional on our part. While we had contracted with a third party to create the tool, we share
responsibility as we did not catch it as part of our code review process.
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14.11.2009Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search: Windows Vista included the enhanced desktop search feature which helps users
to readily locate files, e-mail messages, and other items on their PC . With the release of Windows Search 4.0, the performance of the search tool
improved while adding much-needed manageability features for IT. Windows 7 along with the desktop search, introduces Federated Search in which the
scope of the search goes beyond your PC. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS
format.
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06.01.2009Free Windows Server 2008 Deployment Planning Tool
Tony Soper: If you liked the
Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, you will love
the free
Microsoft Assessment and
Planning Solution Accelerator. Free, agent-less desktop and server assessment, including hardware and device inventory, compatibility analysis,
and readiness pre-fab reports that'll make you look like the genius you are to upper management. Salty goodness.
This
release also includes new features for gathering performance metrics from computers you are considering for consolidation using Microsoft Virtual
Server 2005 R2. Using the performance metrics and a model virtual server host computer, you can generate reports that recommend placement of the
physical servers in a virtual server environment.
This tool incorporates the assessment features provided by the Windows Vista
Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator, including localization of the Windows Vista assessment reports in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish,
and Brazilian Portuguese.
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26.02.2008A new way to monitor your Windows systems' performance
Windows Sentinel is a joint project with the exo.performance.network, founded by InfoWorld Contributing Editor Randall C. Kennedy, that enables
InfoWorld readers to monitor system, process, and network performance while contributing to a global repository of information that will yield an
unprecedented, real-time image of Windows-based system performance and behavior.
Register below to download the Windows Sentinel
software agent, which enables you to monitor the performance of up to three Windows desktop or server systems (including Vista systems) and set alerts
for when your thresholds are exceeded. You can display this performance information on a personalized Web page, a desktop widget, or a widget that
works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and Symbian devices.
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15.04.2008Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit
A blocking tool is available for organizations that would like to temporarily prevent installation of Service Pack updates through Windows Update.
This tool can be used with:
- Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (valid through March, 2008)
- Windows XP Service Pack
3 (valid for 12 months following general availability)
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (valid for 12 months following general
availability)
This toolkit contains three components. All of them function primarily to set or clear a specific registry key that is
used to detect and block download of Service Packs from Windows Update. You only need to use the component which best serves your organizations
computer management infrastructure.
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07.12.2007Microsoft Updates Vista Assessment Tool
Those still considering
whether to make the jump to
Windows Vista will have
additional help with today's
2.0 release of Microsoft's
Vista Hardware Assessment
Tool. The application takes
inventory of a computer system
and makes recommendations if
upgrades are required...
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11.07.2007Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)
The Microsoft Windows
Malicious Software Removal
Tool checks Windows XP,
Windows 2000, and Windows
Server 2003 computers for and
helps remove infections by
specific, prevalent malicious
software-including Blaster,
Sasser, and Mydoom. When the
detection and removal process
is complete, the tool displays
a report describing the
outcome, including which, if
any, malicious software was
detected and removed. The tool
creates a log file named
mrt.log in the %WINDIR%debug
folder.
This tool
is not a replacement for an
anti-virus product. To help
protect your computer, you
should use an anti-virus
product.
Microsoft
will release an updated
version of this tool on the
second Tuesday of each month.
New versions will be made
available through this web
page, Windows Update, and the
Malicious Software Removal
Tool Web site on
Microsoft.com.
To
have the newest versions
automatically delivered and
installed as soon as they are
released, set the Automatic
Updates feature to Automatic.
The version of this tool
delivered by Windows Update
runs on your computer once a
month, in the background. If
an infection is found, the
tool will display a status
report the next time you start
your computer. If you would
like to run this tool more
than once a month, run the
version that is available from
this Web page or use the
version on the
Malicious
Software Removal Tool Web
site.
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