trace slow Explorer startup 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 (http://superuser.com/a/497256/174557).

Copy this into a new txt file and rename it to CMD and run it from the cmd:
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xperf -on latency+FILENAME+FILE_IO+FILE_IO_INIT -stackwalk profile+FileCreate+FileCleanup+FileClose+FileRead+FileWrite+FileSetInformation+FileDelete+FileRename -buffersize 1024 -MaxFile 1024 -FileMode Circular -f kernel.etl
xperf -start UserLogger -on Microsoft-Windows-Immersive-Shell:0xffffffffffffffff:0xff:'stack'+Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUIImmersive:0xffffffffffffffff:0xff:'stack'+Microsoft-Windows-Search-Core:0xffffffffffffffff:0xff:'stack'+Microsoft-Windows-Search:0xffffffffffffffff:0xff:'stack'+Microsoft-Windows-UI-Search:0xffffffffffffffff:0xff:'stack'  -BufferSize 1024 -f USER.etl

echo At this point, the test pass should be performed.

pause


Xperf -stop
Xperf -stop USERLogger
Xperf -merge USER.etl kernel.etl Result.etl

del USER.etl
del kernel.etl
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    Now start the Explorer from a hotkey and when Explorer is running press a key to stop tracing. Rename the Result.etl to Result_Explorer_Start_Hotkey.etl

    Repeat this now a 2nd time when starting Explorer from taskbar.

    zip the 2 Result ETL files as 7z/RAR (to reduce the size), upload it (Onedrive, dropbox, Google Drive) and paste a link here.