Tag Archives: hangs

No Start Menu for You

Posted on January 17, 2023 by brucedawson

I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter. On my powerful laptop (SSD and 32 GB of RAM) this process … Continue reading →

Posted in Code Reliability, Debugging, Investigative Reporting, Performance, Programming, Rants, uiforetw, xperf | Tagged , , | 28 Comments

Xperf Wait Analysis–Finding Idle Time

Posted on May 5, 2012 by brucedawson

The Windows Performance Toolkit, also known as xperf, is a powerful (and free!) system-wide Windows profiler. In the past I’ve talked about using xperf to identify slowdowns in PowerPoint (tutorial version is here) by using xperf’s built-in sampling profiler, but … Continue reading →

Posted in AltDevBlogADay, Investigative Reporting, Performance, Programming, xperf | Tagged , , , , , , , | 48 Comments