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New Windows Performance Toolkit

Alois Kraus,

With Windows 8.1 a new version of the Windows Performance Toolkit has been released. There are many improvements in the WPA gui which were mostly shown during the Build Conference 2013. It is interesting to check what has changed in xperf as well. I simply did call xperf –help for all command line options and write this to one text file. Then I can check the changes between WPA for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. xperf –help start or -SetProfInt [<n>] [cached] It seems that the profile interval can no longer be persisted for all following stack sampling etw sessions. xperf –help stackwalk For ...

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