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Compound Win32 Synchronization Objects - Describes strategies to combine the Win32 synchronization primitives into more complex synchronization objects. It presents several solutions for implementing advanced synchronization objects along with a comparison of how they perform.

Multithreaded Programming with Win32 - This book describes techniques for designing and implementing multithreaded software applications.

Multithreading for Rookies - Focuses on some practical applications of Win32 multithreading.

Multithreading in Windows NT - This paper attempts to give an understanding of many aspects of multithreading and also introduces multi-threading in Windows NT

POSIX Threads (pthreads) for Win32 - An implementation of POSIX pthreads for Win32. [Open source

Strategies for Implementing POSIX Condition Variables on Win32 - This article explores various techniques and patterns for implementing POSIX condition variables correctly and/or fairly on Win32.

Win32 Multithreaded Programming - This book explains the concepts of multithreaded programs and shows developers how to construct efficient and complex applications.

Win32 Multithreading Made Easy - Describes an object-oriented framework for Win32 that encapsulates threads.

Win32 Multithreading Performance - Discusses strategies for rewriting single-threaded applications to be multithreaded applications. It analyzes the performance of multithreaded computations over compatible single-threaded ones in terms of throughput and response on both Windows 95 and Win