Performance
We design Windows operating systems to perform well out of the box. However, many factors affect actual performance: firmware design, applications that load at system startup, memory and I/O components, and the built-in capabilities of system components such as graphics, storage, and networking devices.
To help system designers and manufacturers, we provide tools and information for the design and tuning of systems for best performance.
Performance Tools for Windows 8
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) The Windows ADK is a collection of tools that you can use to assess the performance of systems you build, including and deploy Windows® operating systems to new computers. The Windows ADK is new for Windows 8. Tools that were previously available in the Windows OEM Preinstallation Kit and Windows Automated Installation Kit are now available in the Windows ADK. | Included in the Windows ADK, assessments are a new set of tools that measure the quality of a computer, including overall performance, energy efficiency, and battery consumption. The results of these assessments are used to diagnose potential problems, ensuring that the hardware, application software, and drivers that you develop are responsive and have a minimal impact to battery life, startup performance, and shutdown time. |
Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit (WPT) Included in the Windows ADK, WPT makes performance issues easy to diagnose. The toolkit includes: Windows Performance Recorder captures detailed system and application behavior and resource usage either from the command line or a new graphical user interface. Windows Performance Analyzer is a powerful tool used to review aspects of performance on Windows. WPA opens event trace log files and displays performance data in graphs and tables so that you can easily see where to investigate potential issues. | Microsoft Server Performance Advisor for Windows The Microsoft Server Performance Advisor (SPA) for Windows, version 3.0, provides IT administrators the right set of performance data to identify, compare, and diagnose potential server performance problems and bottlenecks. Microsoft SPA 3.0 is an update to the original SPA and can help you diagnose the root causes of performance problems in a Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, or newer deployment. |
Windows Performance Analysis Developer Center This developer center contains detailed information about performance tuning of applications and computer systems. Resources available on this developer center include news, links to community forums, and getting started information. |
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 System Performance
- Windows 8 SMB 2.2 File Sharing performance
- Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 white paper
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 System performance
- Microsoft performance Advisor for Windows
- Memory Sizing Guidance for Windows 7
- performance Testing Guide for Windows
- performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
- Using Hardware performance Counters on Windows
- Windows On/Off Transition performance Analysis
- Windows On/Off Transitions Solutions Guide
- Windows pC Accelerators
- Windows performance Analysis: Using Windows performance Tools [WinHEC 2008; 5.3 MB] [ppT]
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 System performance
See Also
- Disk Subsystem performance Analysis for Windows
- Driver performance
- How to Use NTttcp to Test Network performance
- Kernel Enhancements for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
- programmer's Guide to Eventing
