• complete various objectives. The series began on Windows in 1999 with the release of the first game, Counter-Strike. It was initially released as a modification...
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  • Performance Monitor (known as System Monitor in Windows 9x, Windows 2000, and Windows XP) is a system monitoring program introduced in Windows NT 3.1....
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  • entry, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012). The game was announced on March 22, 2023, and was released on September 27, 2023, for Windows and Linux...
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  • StatCounter; however when including mobile operating systems, it is in second place, behind Android. The most recent version of Windows is Windows 11 for...
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  • or processors in the same system. For Windows, AMD provides a utility to periodically synchronize the counters on multiple core CPUs. Since the family...
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  • The registry also allows access to counters for profiling system performance. In other words, the registry or Windows Registry contains information, settings...
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  • Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021 as the successor to Windows 10 (2015). It...
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  • (sometimes called perf_events or perf tools, originally Performance Counters for Linux, PCL) is a performance analyzing tool in Linux, available from Linux kernel...
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  • Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became...
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  • Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. The successor to Windows 8.1, it was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015...
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  • MinWin (category Windows NT architecture)
    system components that form the basis of releases of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows Vista. The term was first used in 2003 to describe approximately...
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    uses Microsoft software development platforms including Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Microsoft Store and Microsoft...
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  • Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October...
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    Windows Notepad is a simple text editor for Windows; it creates and edits plain text documents. It was first released in 1983 to commercialize the computer...
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  • Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available...
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  • fourth game in the Counter-Strike series. Developed for over two years, Global Offensive was released for OS X, PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in...
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  • clock (RTC). Windows XP, when fitted with the latest hardware abstraction layer (HAL), can also use the processor's Time Stamp Counter (TSC), or ACPI...
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  • exclusive to Microsoft's Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems. The beta release for Windows 10 launched on the Windows Store on 29 July 2015. After...
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  • Commit charge (category Windows administration)
    backed by nothing. The Windows Task Manager utility for Windows XP and Server 2003, in its Performance tab, shows three counters related to commit charge:...
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  • Notable changes include a complete replacement of both the Windows Setup and the Windows startup processes, completely rewritten deployment mechanisms...
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  • Resource Monitor (category Windows components)
    exe in Windows Vista). The Vista and later Resource Monitor heavily leverages the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) facilities introduced in Windows 7; the...
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  • Universally unique identifier (category Windows administration)
    operating system designed by Apollo Computer. Later,[when?] the Microsoft Windows platforms adopted the DCE design as "Globally Unique IDentifiers" (GUIDs)...
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  • over-the-counter nutritional supplement. While the use of PEDs has expanded in recent times, the practice of using substances to improve performance has been...
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  • collecting hardware counters when built with PAPI support. The following tools work for multiple languages or binaries. Arm MAP, a performance profiler supporting...
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  • Read-only or the System attributes of folders in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista or in Windows 7". support.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08...
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  • The company then proceeded to hire the creators of popular mods such as Counter-Strike. Valve continued their trend of developing predominantly first-person...
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  • and changing the rate of timer interrupts a guest operating system requests (1005802) High Performance Windows Timers Timing on the PC family under DOS...
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    from Windows 10 to macOS. The new Edge was publicly released in January 2020, and on Xbox as well as Linux in 2021. Edge was also available on Windows 7...
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    reconstituted as a corps. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action and special reconnaissance. Much...
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    Valorant (category Windows games)
    by Riot Games. A free-to-play game, Valorant takes inspiration from the Counter-Strike series, borrowing several mechanics such as the buy menu, spray...
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