New and Updated (Free) Tools

In conjunction with my upcoming book and sessions at Briforum, I am releasing a number of new and updated tools involving Windows Performance analysis. These tools may be found in the Performance Tools section of the TMurgent website. These tools are generally free to download and use (the only restrictions are for ISVs that want to use them to show off how good they are).

So what are these tools?

AndThenThereWasPower!	A Detailed Walk-through the Windows 7 Boot Process (A Silverlight app).
ATM	View Windows Memory Caches and Superfetch.
DePrio	Open file at specified memory priority.
Factorial	Tool to act as an app that eats one CPU core.
HyperV_Mon	Monitors Hyper-V Server and VMs, including “overhead”.
IWillCrash	Tool to act as an app that crashes itself.
LaunchTimeAnalyze	Tool to Run scripts and measure Perceived Performance
LeakMemory	Tool to act as an app that leaks memory in a controlled way.
LoadDlls	Tool to load a bunch of dlls. Used to test effect of Windows App prefetch.
MassiveRebase	Tool to investigate dll rebasing and effect of ASLR.
PageMania	Tool to act as a bad app and cause paging activity on demand.
ReadyViewer	Tool to analyze Windows ReadyBoost (flash caching).
SequentialRead	Tool to read file sequentially or randomly on demand.
SuperFetch_Tools	Two tools to investigate the SuperFetch database scenario files.   SuperFetchList   SuperFetchTree
WhatsMyBoot	Tool to analyze Boot, Shutdown, Suspend/Hibernate, Resume, and Windows ReadyBoot feature performance.

These, and many more tools written by others, will be covered in my two BriForum Sessions in London (and probably the Chicago show also). The two sessions are:

• Top 15 Ways Microsoft Uses Caching to Increase Performance
  Wednesday May 23, 1:05pm – 2:20pm
• “And Then There Was Power,” the Story of a Windows 7 and 8 Boot Process
  Thursday May 24, 11:10am – 12:25pm