Windows License and Activation

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/24/windows-vista-activation-grace-period-and-5-license-states-explained/

Nagle and Delayed Acks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm

http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/artg/research/speedingTCP/buff_goldberg_speeding_up_TCP.doc

http://www.evilware.com/201001011017/Evolve/windows-7-and-windows-vista-network-performance-tweaks.html

IIS and ASP.NET

Authentication:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Ee817643(pandp.10).aspx

Batch file utility (.BAT)

http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil.html

Nehalem Core i5/i7 Turbo mode

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2008/0826/kaigai463.htm

Using microsoft symbol server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b8ttk8zy.aspx

svn mailer

http://opensource.perlig.de/svnmailer/doc-1.0/

MSXML performance

Inside MSXML Performance

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950760.aspx

Windows Threads

Better to use _beginthread instead of CreateThread.

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q104641/

DLL initialization and pitfalls

Best practice document:http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/DLL_bestprac.mspx

Linked from here: http://www.voyce.com/index.php/2009/12/03/dont-do-anything-in-dllmain-please/

New VISTA API for One time initialization: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363808(VS.85).aspx