Windows Performance Step-by-Step Guides

The following guides provide step-by-step exercises to help you understand, record, and analyze traces for the following scenarios:

• Optimizing the memory footprint
• Optimizing performance and responsiveness
• Debugging power problems with standby
• Optimizing Windows devices for multimedia experiences

Note  The exercises in each step-by-step guide build on the previous exercise(s) in their respective guide. For example, in the Memory Footprint Optimization step-by-step guide, featured exercises include identifying processes with large working sets, tracking user mode process allocations, and tracking driver footprint and dynamic allocations during boot.