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How to collect a boot trace on Windows 10 using xbootmgr

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 […]

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Windows 10 20H2 boot trace – dropped events

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 […]

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How To: Collect ETL/WPT tracing diagnostics when you can never logon to the host.

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 […]

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What does a good boot look like (aka, what should I be happy with)?

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 […]

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How to collect a trace for audio or video problems in Windows 7

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, […]

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How to collect a good boot trace on Windows 7

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 […]

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The dude does xperf…

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 […]

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The Dude’s Greatest Hits

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 […]

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How to collect a netmon 3.4 and xperf kernel trace and stop when a problem occurs.

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 […]

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