slowness tracing with xperf

 Install the Windows Performance Toolkit (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4847.install-the-windows-performance-toolkit-wpt.aspx), open the command prompt with admin rights.


Now copy those commands in an empty .CMD file and run the CMD (as admin) before you try to run an action which triggers the slowness:

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xperf -on PROC_THREAD+LOADER+CSWITCH+DISPATCHER+DISK_IO+DISK_IO_INIT+FILENAME+FILE_IO+FILE_IO_INIT+PROFILE -stackwalk profile+CSwitch+ReadyThread+ProcessCreate+FileCreate+FileCleanup+FileClose+FileRead+FileWrite+DiskReadInit+DiskWriteInit -buffersize 2048 -MaxFile 1024 -FileMode Circular -f Kernel.etl
xperf -start UserLogger -on Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Core:::'stack'+Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Shwebsvc:::'stack'+Microsoft-IE:::'stack'+Microsoft-IEFRAME:::'stack'+Microsoft-Windows-WinINet:::'stack'+Microsoft-Windows-WinINet:::'stack' -BufferSize 2048 -f User.etl

timeout -1

xperf -stop
xperf -stop UserLogger

xperf -merge User.etl kernel.etl SlowWindows.etl -compress

del user.etl
del kernel.etl
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If you have captured the slowness, press a key to stop tracing.

Compress the SlowWindows.etl as 7z/RAR (to reduce the size), upload it (Onedrive, Dropbox) and paste a link here.