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On/Off Transition Performance Analysis of Windows Vista

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Overview This paper discusses the importance of on/off transition performance, methodologies for measuring this performance, and how to analyze the results. The information in this paper is intended to help OEMs and system analysts improve system response times. This information applies to the Windows Vista operating system. This paper accompanies the Windows 2008 Software Development Kit release of the xperf tools.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	October 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Engineering, Windows Vista

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