{"id":910,"date":"2012-05-16T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T15:44:40","slug":"new-and-updated-free-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"New and Updated (Free) Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

In conjunction with my upcoming book and sessions at Briforum<\/a>, I am releasing a number of new and updated tools involving Windows Performance analysis. These tools may be found in the Performance Tools<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n

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