Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Vasilios Karagounis

Mehmet Iyigun

Yevgeniy Bak

Brian E King

Emily Nicole Wilson

Patrick L Stemen

Neel K Jain

Kirsten Valery Stark

Sushu Zhang

Eric D Deily

Emily Kruglick

Kirsten V Stark

Neel Jain

Emily N Wilson

Seth B Pollack

Douglas C Hebenthal

Michael Courage

Wade Hilmo

Asim Mitra

Andy Morrison

Eric B Stenson

Charles K Moore

Rayner S D′Souza

Fast computer startup is provided by, upon receipt of a shutdown command, recording state information representing a target state. In this target state, the computing device may have closed all user sessions, such that no user state information is included in the target state. However, the operating system may still be executing. In response to a command to startup the computer, this target state may be quickly reestablished from the recorded target state information. Portions of a startup sequence may be performed to complete the startup process, including establishing user state. To protect user expectations despite changes in response to a shutdown command, creation and use of the file holding the recorded state information may be conditional on dynamically determined events. Also, user and programmatic interfaces may provide options to override creation or use of the recorded state information.

Fast computer startup

A web server system is provided which includes a web garden made up of a plurality of instances of a user-mode web application. The web server includes a kernel-mode listener service that is configured to receive web requests and selectively provide the TCP/IP connections to selected instances of the user-mode web application. It does this by establishing a plurality of request queues corresponding to the number of instances of the web application logic. The web server also includes a user-mode administrative process that is configured to selectively start each of the instances of the web application and maintain the size of the resulting web garden, for example, based on a defined maximum web garden size parameter.

Web garden application pools having a plurality of user-mode web applications

A web server arrangement is provided having a kernel-mode listener service capable of receiving web requests and providing the web requests to at least one user mode web application. The listener service and the web application are operatively configured by a user-mode administrative process. The administrative process is configured to determine when a web application needs to be recycled and to selectively recycle web applications.

Ensuring the health and availability of web applications

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