Performance

This section contains information to help system designers and manufacturers optimize systems for best performance.

Many factors affect 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.

In this section

Topic	Description
Windows PC Accelerators	Download a paper on the Windows PC Accelerators that improve performance: SuperFetch, ReadyBoot, ReadyBoost, ReadyDrive; guidance for PC and storage device manufacturers.
Using Hardware Performance Counters on Windows	This paper describes how drivers can safely use hardware performance counters on Windows 7 platforms.

 

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