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MSI increases the number of interrupts that are possible. While conventional PCI was limited to four interrupts per card (and, because they were shared among all cards, most are using only one), message signalled interrupts allow dozens of interrupts per card, when that is useful. [1] There is also a slight performance advantage.
Windows Server 2003 Support Tools includes 70 different tools. [3] For instance, WinDiff is a GUI tool for comparing files and folders. [4] [5] NetDiag is a CLI tool for diagnosing network problems. [6] This tool is command-line version of the Network Troubleshooter that can be found in Windows Help and Support Center.
Platform SDK is the successor of the original Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 3.1x and Microsoft Win32 SDK for Windows 9x.It was released in 1999 and is the oldest SDK. Platform SDK contains compilers, tools, documentations, header files, libraries and samples needed for software development on IA-32, x64 and IA-64 CPU architectures. .
During the Windows 2000, XP, 2003 timeframe there was an old tool Hardware Compatibility Test (HCT) to certify devices. When Windows Vista was released the tool was replaced by Driver Test Manager (DTM) which can certify drivers for all then-supported platforms. At that time DTM was part of Windows Driver Kit (WDK).
Previously, the WDK was known as the Driver Development Kit (DDK) [4] and supported Windows Driver Model (WDM) development. It got its current name when Microsoft released Windows Vista and added the following previously separated tools to the kit: Installable File System Kit (IFS Kit), Driver Test Manager (DTM), though DTM was later renamed and removed from WDK again.
Once prepared, an installer package is "compiled" by reading the instructions and files from the developer's local machine, and creating the .msi file. Windows Installer may be slower than native code installation technologies, such as InstallAware, [10] due to the overhead of component registration and rollback support, which often involves ...
A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, [3] network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface [4]) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network. [5] Early network interface controllers were commonly implemented on expansion cards that plugged into a computer bus.
learn.microsoft.com /windows /apps /windows-app-sdk / Windows App SDK (formerly known as Project Reunion ) [ 3 ] is a software development kit (SDK) from Microsoft that provides a unified set of APIs and components that can be used to develop desktop applications for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 1809 and later.