PexTimer v2.0
Copyright (c) 2007 by LovePimple



DESCRIPTION

PexTimer (Program Execution Timer) is a freeware Win32 console program, which is designed to accurately measure the execution time of system commands or utilities from the Windows command (DOS) prompt.



REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Hardware: IBM-compatible PC with 80486 processor. 

Recommended Hardware: IBM-compatible PC with 1 GHz Pentium III/IV class processor, or better. 


Operating Systems: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Recommended Operating Systems: 32-Bit Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.



HOW TO INSTALL

Copy "PexTimer.exe" to your working folder, or to a folder anywhere in the path (e.g. C:\Windows\).



HOW TO UNINSTALL

Simply delete "PexTimer.exe" from your computer. This program does not make changes to your registry.



*NOTES*

Usage: PexTimer program [arguments ...]


The user selectable [/e] option causes all output data to be written to stderr.

PexTimer will start the specified program and accurately measure its execution (run) time.

Any ERRORLEVEL codes returned by the program being timed are also returned by PexTimer on exit.

Always restart Windows before testing programs that you suspect may take at least several hours execution time.

For most accurate timing, run your tests on a 32-Bit NT based (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista) Windows operating system.



EXAMPLES
 
Timing Windows CHKDSK command:

PexTimer chkdsk


Timing Windows DIR command:

PexTimer dir /s *.scr


Timing PKWARE's PKZIP archiver:

PexTimer pkzip -add -max test_archive.zip *.doc


Timing Igor Pavlov's 7-Zip archiver:

PexTimer 7z a test_archive.7z *.doc




FREEWARE LICENCE

This software is distributed as FreeWare. There is no fee for using it.

This software must not be decompiled, debugged, or reverse-engineered, or changed in any other way. 



DISCLAIMER

This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty, and with no claim as to its suitability for any purpose.




CREDITS

* Radek Liska (aka Black_Fox) for his invaluable help and suggestions as beta tester.

* Ilia Muraviev for his excellent compression forum.

* Igor Pavlov for the 7-Zip archiver.

* Phil Katz, and PKWARE for PKZIP.
 

Radek Liska's web site: http://blackfox.wz.cz/

Radek Liska's compression benchmark: http://blackfox.wz.cz/benchmark/

Ilia Muraviev's compression forum: http://www.encode.ru/forum/

Igor Pavlov's 7-Zip web site: http://www.7-zip.org/

PKWARE, Inc: http://www.pkware.com/

