Why? Because the recording tool WPR is part of every Windows 10 installation. The natural reaction to anyone who is dealing with performance issues on windows is to turn on ETW tracing. Task manager was showing on my 4 Core notebook up to over 50% CPU utilization which means that I could barely work when something demanding was needed. This is happening in the background and you will not notice anything except that sometimes stuff is downloaded and installed and you are asked to reboot because some newly installed software or Windows update needs one.Īfter a reboot I was noticing that my machine was always working feverishly for the next 5 minutes on at least 2 cores. MS System Center, rolling out virus scanners and virus pattern updates. This involves rolling out central Group Policies defined by your administrators, deploying software centrally with e.g. Normally you have an Active Directory installation which takes care of user management. I am not sure if he had that in mind but be prepared for unexpected twists during the following posts.įirst a little background what you can expect in a corporate Windows network. “ Nothing exists independently“, a verdict from Dalai Lama applies very much to performance engineering. This is about a case where I did wonder why my Windows installation at home is running fast but the Windows machine inside a company network is so slow, especially boot.

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