Category Archives: Windows Performance Recorder

Start ProcMon During Boot on Machine You Can’t Logon

Posted on December 8, 2016 by chentiangemalc

Sometimes you might want to run some tracing tools like ProcMon, xperf, wpr, netsh trace, etc on a machine that logon is not completing properly. Often you might be able to use PowerShell remoting, WMI, or psexec to get these … Continue reading →

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Case of the Win10 Windows Performance Recorder Trace That Wouldn’t Stop

Posted on September 8, 2015 by chentiangemalc

Disk space kept rapidly disappearing on my C: drive… Using WinDirStat (https://windirstat.info/) it was evident majority was taken up by 40GB+ ETL files in my TEMP folder. Running wpr –status showed no traces running Searching registry with RegScanner ( http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html … Continue reading →

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Case of the 30 minute Windows 7 Logon

Posted on September 13, 2014 by chentiangemalc

After following a similar approach as below: https://chentiangemalc.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/case-of-the-8-minute-windows-8-1-first-logon/ I still hadn’t found any obvious cause of slow logon, except that it was in Win Logon Init phase. CPU, Storage, Memory, and Disk usage are all low: Expanding Generic Events, looking … Continue reading →

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Case of the Windows 8.1 Audio Glitches

Posted on September 12, 2014 by chentiangemalc

In this scenario a Windows 8.1 device, despite well spec’d hardware wise, would get buzzing/clicking audio glitches during audio playback, typically when playing web content. In addition DRM’d web content like Amazon Prime stuttered completely, however it ran fine in … Continue reading →

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