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January 5th, 2011, 12:48 AM
Microsoft offers a set of utilities that it internally uses, to sniff out performance issues in Windows. These tools which Microsoft uses internally to detect and correct boot issues are freely available today as a part of the Windows Performance Toolkit.
These tools viz. Xperf.exe, Xperfview.exe, and Xbootmgr.exe, collectively dubbed the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT), can be downloaded for Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
While not appropriate for most users, the tools are quite useful to developers, geeks and performance enthusiasts.
The Windows Performance Toolkit can be used to analyze performance during startup, boot up, deferred procedure calls and interrupt activity (DPCs and ISRs), system response, resource usage, and interrupt storms. This feature requires 23.8 MB of hard disk space.
The WPT is available for download here:
Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1 (x86)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/7/e2700369-d072-4fdc-a451-c3355eab0613/xperf_x86.msi
Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1 (Itanium)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/7/e2700369-d072-4fdc-a451-c3355eab0613/xperf_ia64.msi
Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1 (x64)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/7/e2700369-d072-4fdc-a451-c3355eab0613/xperf_x64.msi
Windows Performance Toolkit 4.1.1 does not support Windows 7.
Windows 7 SDK comes with a version compatible with this OS release. To get the free Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit 4.7, you will have to download Windows 7 SDK 7.1http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b and during installation select only the Win32 Development Tools from the list of programs to install.
These tools viz. Xperf.exe, Xperfview.exe, and Xbootmgr.exe, collectively dubbed the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT), can be downloaded for Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
While not appropriate for most users, the tools are quite useful to developers, geeks and performance enthusiasts.
The Windows Performance Toolkit can be used to analyze performance during startup, boot up, deferred procedure calls and interrupt activity (DPCs and ISRs), system response, resource usage, and interrupt storms. This feature requires 23.8 MB of hard disk space.
The WPT is available for download here:
Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1 (x86)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/7/e2700369-d072-4fdc-a451-c3355eab0613/xperf_x86.msi
Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1 (Itanium)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/7/e2700369-d072-4fdc-a451-c3355eab0613/xperf_ia64.msi
Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1 (x64)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/7/e2700369-d072-4fdc-a451-c3355eab0613/xperf_x64.msi
Windows Performance Toolkit 4.1.1 does not support Windows 7.
Windows 7 SDK comes with a version compatible with this OS release. To get the free Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit 4.7, you will have to download Windows 7 SDK 7.1http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b and during installation select only the Win32 Development Tools from the list of programs to install.