Improving System Performance by Heating Efficient Background Activities

Inefficient background activity has a dramatic impact on system performance, power consumption, responsiveness, and memory footprint. This session demonstrates best practices for background activity designs and explains capabilities of the Service Control Manager (SCM) and Task Scheduler. It also covers information on how to utilize new Windows 7 infrastructure to develop efficient background services.

Speaker's Bio

Vikram Singh
PROGRAM MANAGER II
Vikram Singh has 15 years of Windows-based software development, testing, and program management experience. He joined Microsoft in 2001, where he contributed to Windows XP development. During Windows 7 development, Vikram drove background activity engagements that helped developers design activity with reduced impact on PC performance and power. Vikram continues to own and improve the background activity infrastructure for the next version of Windows.