| Sample | Description | Location (under Samples) |
| Wait Chain Traversal Sample | Displays wait chains of all currently running threads. | WinBase\Debug\WCT |
| Windows Deployment Services Sample - Filter Provider | Enables client computers to boot to a Network Boot Program (NBP). | WinBase\Deployment\WindowsDeploymentServices\FilterProv |
| Windows Deployment Services Client API Image Enumeration Sample | Enumerates images on the Windows Deployment Services Image Server. | WinBase\Deployment\WindowsDeploymentServices\ImageEnum |
| Windows Deployment Services Provider Sample | Shows how to create a DLL that replaces or runs side-by-side with the existing PXE Provider (BINL) on a Windows Deployment Services server. | WinBase\Deployment\WindowsDeploymentServices\SampProv |
| Transacted File Sample | Demonstrates how to create a transaction using the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) interfaces. | WinBase\DTC\TransactedFile |
| Enumerate Trace GUIDs Sample | Views information about currently registered providers by tracing the GUIDs. | WinBase\EventTrace\EnumerateGuids |
| ETW New Provider API Demonstration | Shows simple usage of the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) tracing facility. | WinBase\EventTrace\ETWProvider |
| Event Log Query Sample | Queries events from the event log. | WinBase\EventTrace\querylog |
| Event Log Pull Subscription Sample | Subscribes to events published into the event log using pull subscription. | WinBase\EventTrace\SubscriberPull |
| Event Log Push Subscription Sample | Subscribes to events published into the event log using push subscription. | WinBase\EventTrace\SubscriberPush |
| Trace Data Helper Sample | Provides abstract decoding implementation for Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) and Windows Trace Preprocessor (WPP) trace events. | WinBase\EventTrace\TraceDataHelper |
| Extended File Handle API Sample | Queries the file system with the new GetFileInformationByHandleEx method. | WinBase\IO\ExtendedFileAPIs |
| iSCSI Initiator Sample | Manages data transfers with the Microsoft iSCSI initiator service. | WinBase\iSCSI |
| Service Status Change Notification API Samples | Monitors starting and stopping of services. | WinBase\MonitorServices |
| Microsoft Remote Differential Compression (RDC) Sample | Copies a file over the network using Remote Differential Compression to reduce required bandwidth. | WinBase\RDC |
| Restart Manager-Aware Sample Applications | Enables console applications to be controlled by the Restart Manager. | WinBase\RestartManager\RmCuiApp\Cpp |
| Restart Manager Conductor Process API Sample | Sets shutdown and restart filter options for the Restart Manager. | Winbase\RestartManager\RmFilterApp |
| Restart Manager-Aware Sample Applications | Enables a Windows Forms application to be shut down and restarted by the Restart Manager. | WinBase\RestartManager\RmWinformApp\Cs |
| ShutdownBlockReason() API Sample | Enables applications to proactively specify reasons to block a shutdown. | WinBase\RestartManager\ShutdownBlockReasonTestApp\CPP |
| IMAPIv2 C# Sample | Contains source code intended only as a supplement to Microsoft IMAPI2 Help and online documentation. See these other materials for detailed information about Microsoft code samples. | WinBase\storage\IBurn |
| Imapi v2 Sample | Views new imaging capabilities. | WinBase\storage\optical\imapi2sample |
| Registration API Sample | Register Application Restart, Application Recovery, and memory blocks. | WinBase\WindowsErrorReporting\Registration |
| Performance Counter Provider Sample | Runs the new performance counter provider. | WinBase\WinNT\PerfCounter |
| Performance Logs & Alerts (PLA) API Sample | Collects performance data with performance logs and alerts. | WinBase\WinNT\PerfLogsAlert |
| Performance Logs and Alert VBScript Sample | Runs a VBScript version of performance logs and alerts. | Winbase\WinNT\PerfLogsAlert\vbs |
| vshadow | Description: vshadow is a sample requestor application geared towards hardware shadow copy scenarios. It can import hardware shadow copies, interact with writers and offers minimal backup and restore functionality. | Winbase\VSS\vshadow |
| SampleWriter | This sample demonstrates elementary VSS writer functionality and can be used as a foundation for more complex scenarios. | Winbase\VSS\SampleWriter |
| vssampleprovider | This is an example of a VSS hardware provider. Vsssampleprovider along with the virtual storage driver (virtualstorage.sys) and virtual storage controller (vstorcontrol.exe) located in the directory bin\vsstools directory can be used to emulate the functionality of a hardware provider. This sample will work only on server SKU’s since hardware provider functionality is not available on client SKU’s. | Winbase\VSS\vsssampleprovider |