trace | Jeff Stokes

March 10, 2021 jeffstokes2014 2

Sometimes in support you’ll be asked to collect a boot trace to help troubleshoot slow boot or slow logon scenarios. The symptoms are a long […]

March 5, 2021 jeffstokes2014 0

TLDR: At time of writing, Windows 10 20H2 has a bug where the default buffer allocations in boot tracing are inadequate to capture the data […]

May 13, 2015 jeffstokes2014 2

First, guess who's back?! Me! I left Microsoft of my own accord last year. I came back. I wrote this about my experience, I hope […]

October 14, 2012 jeffstokes2014 2

It’s a question I wasn’t prepared for in class last week, but one that made sense really. For the IT Pro that doesn’t eat breath […]

September 18, 2012 jeffstokes2014 4

Assume the following: You have a Windows 7 host that you want to collect a trace from. The user complains of audio issues, stuttering, latency, […]

September 17, 2012 jeffstokes2014 9

Assume the following: You have a Windows 7 host that you want to collect a trace from. A good trace. One that you know other […]

June 24, 2012 jeffstokes2014 0

So the Dude (that’s me) has gone over how to collect xperf traces a few times now, but what do we do after we’ve collected […]

September 24, 2011 jeffstokes2014 2

As requested by several customers, I’m putting up a list of tools I find useful in troubleshooting, etc… First up…. Data Gathering I use the […]

July 7, 2011 jeffstokes2014 0

So at a customer location the following question was posed to me: “In our VDI environment, how do we capture trace information? How can we […]