How to analyze Windows minifilter performance impact
A question was brought to me, of how can one analyze minifilter driver impact on Windows clients? For the answer, I went back to my […]
Windows Performance Toolkit
How to collect a boot trace on Windows 10 with Windows Performance Recorder from the Microsoft ADK
For: Windows 10 (any x64 build) Requirements: Windows Performance Toolkit from the Microsoft ADK Launch WPRUI as administrator (aka Windows Performance Recorder) by clicking […]
How To: Collect ETL/WPT tracing diagnostics when you can never logon to the host.
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 […]
Xperf for the layman, performance analysis unchained, Windows Assessment Toolkit revealed.
If you have been following along in performance land the last year or three, you’d hear about xperf and the WPT (Windows Performance Toolkit). Mayhap […]
What does a good boot look like (aka, what should I be happy with)?
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 […]
How to collect a trace for audio or video problems in Windows 7
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, […]
How to collect a good boot trace on Windows 7
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 […]
Welcome to the Windows Assessment Server from the Windows 8 ADK. Part 1 of X
Fa-La…It’s the magical mystery tour….. Well, not really, but it is the Windows Assessment Server brought to us by the Windows 8 ADK! […]
Windows 8 ADK solves GPO Logon Delay questions, film at 11….
Symptoms: Logons take forever and you’ve collected an xbootmgr/WPR/xperf123/xperfui trace. What GPO can it be? Easy! Open Windows Performance Analyzer from the Windows 8 […]
What is Windows Performance Analyzer all about and why should you use it instead of xperfview?
Consider the following trace in xperfview: This should be familiar to you, it’s the DPC storm / storport doorbell that looks like this: So how […]