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Good citizenship when developing background services for Windows Vista

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  • Version: 1.0
  • Category: Document
  • Language: English

Building background services that deliver core functionality but work well with other services can be challenging.This topic includes best practices and case studies for creating high performance background services that run on Windows Vista.

Describes the considerations necessary to build a good background service, the options available to create background processes that don’t overuse system resources, and the techniques used by Windows Search to achieve good citizenship while still delivering its core functionality.

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System Requirements

Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition, Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition, Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition, Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition, Windows Vista Business N, Windows Vista Home Basic N, Windows Vista Starter N

This topic is written specifically for Windows Vista, but information on writing background services is generally applicable to other releases of Windows as well, including, but not limited to, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000.

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