Ever had to wait a long time before a SharePoint page loads the first time during a demo? You really want to have the pages load fast if you click through a SharePoint demo! Joel posted the scripts to warm up your servers and preloads the most common pages in SharePoint.
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"warmupserver.zip contains the following 3 files:
Startup.bat - Calls the warmupserver.cmd script and passes in the servername parameter (modify this to fit the hostname of your server)
Warmupserver.cmd - checks for servername parameter then leverages the HttpRequest.vbs script to hit the relevant admin pages (change the pages and ports to the relevant ones)
HTTPRequest.vbs - This script executes an HTTP query using the XMLHTTP object"