Tools and Downloads: Performance

And Then There Was Power
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Type: Free Version: N/A Updated: May 17, 2012 This is a Silverlight app that is a walk-through of the Windows Boot Process. A silverlight based app that walks you through the entire boot process, from BIOS, to pre-boot, boot, and...
ATM: The Cache Machine
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Type: Free Version: 3.8 Updated: July 10, 2016   ATM is a tool designed to allow you to better explore how the operating system uses the System File Cache, Standby Lists, and Memory Compression on your system. In addition to some monitoring...
DePrio: Test file mapping and memory priority levels
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Type: Free Version: 1.0.0.1 Updated: May 1, 2012 Updated May, 2012 DePrio is a tool to map a file at a known memory priority level.
Factorial: Eat up a CPU without really trying
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Type: Free Version: 1.0.0.0 Updated: April 22, 2005 Factorial is a tool designed as a bad application that will eat up a single CPU with a repetitive math calculation. The purpose of this is to test tools to detect application behavior...
HyperV_Mon: 3.18.11.17 Tool for Monitoring HyperV VMs
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Type: Free Version: 3.18.11.17 Updated: November 17, 2018 HyperV_Mon is a free GUI based tool designed to allow you to better explore your Hyper-V system and virtual machine performance.  Now supporting Windows 10/Server 2016 and VMs with...
HyperV_Mon: GUI Tool to monitor Hyper-V VMs
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Type: Free Version: 3.0.2 Updated: June 11, 2013 HyperV_Mon is a GUI based tool designed to allow you to better explore your Hyper-V system and virtual machine performance.
I Will Crash
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Type: Free Version: 1.0.0.1 Updated: March 15, 2012 IWillCrash is a tool designed as a bad application that will crash itself. The purpose of this is to test tools to detect application crashes...
Launch Time Analyze
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Type: Free Version: N/A Updated: October 8, 2011 LaunchTimeAnalyze is a tool to measure Perceived Performance, a measurement of the performance of systems as perceived by...
Leak Memory
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Type: Free Version: 1.0.0.2 Updated: April 22, 2005 LeakMemory is a tool designed act as a badly behaved application that leaks memory. This tool is useful for testing other tools that should detect such behavior, or as an example of such a...
Load Dlls
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Type: Free Version: 1.0.0.0 Updated: January 18, 2012 LoodDlls is a tool to measure the effect of Application Prefetch on Windows Operating Systems.
Massive Rebase: DLL Sharing and ASLR Investigation
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Type: Free Version: 2.0.0.0 Updated: December 24, 2011 This tool was written to demonstrate the positive effect of dll sharing by the operating system and the negative effect of dynamic dll rebasing. It is also useful when investigating...
PageMania: A bad app to cause paging activity on demand
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Type: Free Version: 2.1.0.0 Updated: March 14, 2012 PageMania is a tool designed act as a badly behaved application that: Allocates a lot of memory, Reduces it's working set, also called a trimming operation, causing the memory to be...
PingTool: A packet throwing tool on steroids
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Type: Free Version: 2.0.0.2 Updated: September 25, 2001 PingTool is a packet generating tool I developed in the 1990's when I work for a communication equipment manufacturer and we needed a way to generate a high stream of packets in a...
ReadyViewer
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Type: Free Version: 1.0.0 Updated: January 23, 2012 ReadyViewer analyzes the effectiveness of Microsoft ReadyBoost. Microsoft ReadyBoost allows for increased system performance by augmenting rotational disk media with small USB based...
Sequential Read
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Type: Free Version: 1.2.0.0 Updated: October 17, 2013 This tool was written to investigate how the Windows Cache Manager and Disk I/O subsystems precache file data leading to improved performance when file I/O patterns are sequential. It is...
SuperFetch Tools
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Type: Free Version: 2.2.0.0 Updated: April 8, 2016 SuperFetch_Tools contains two tools designed to investigate the information that SuperFatch stores in its database files. These investigative tools do not yet fully know the format of...
TMNetSim: Quick and Easy Network Simulation Tool
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Type: Free Version: 2.0.4.0 Updated: February 12, 2007 Version: 2.0.4.0 (MSIX) Updated: September 2018 TMnetsim is used to simulate a wide-area network for a single protocol.  It is used to create test situations that simulate real-world...
What's My Boot?
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Type: Free Version: N/A Updated: June 19, 2017 WhatsMyBoot is a tool to analyze the data left behind from booting your operating system.  In particular, it analyzes the results of ReadyBoot, an OS feature to improve boot performance.  Ready...