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Windows Performance Toolkit and System State Analyzer
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The free Windows Performance Toolkit helps administrators troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, startup issues, and slow application performance. It also investigates boot time delays. Experienced users and developers will discover that the toolkit also provides options for measuring application resources and interrupts. The new version of the toolkit is optimized for use with Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 and Windows Vista/7, although it can also be used with Windows Server 2003 R2 or XP SP3.
In contrast to Windows' own performance monitor, the tool doesn't work with indicators that you have to launch separately but uses integrated measuring points. In addition to this tool, you can also deploy the free Windows System State Analyzer to precisely investigate changes to your system.
The two tools support efficient monitoring and analysis of servers, which also can help developers understand the effects that their programs have on a Windows server. The two tools create exportable log files and are thus both suitable for troubleshooting. To allow this to happen, you just perform the measurements and send the log files to a specialist who then analyzes the errors. This process can also be seen as an attempt by Microsoft support to solve customer performance problems.
Windows Performance Toolkit
The Windows Performance Toolkit belongs to the Windows Software Development Toolkit (SDK), which you can download for free [1]. To run the tools, you will need .NET Framework 4 [2]. If you want to investigate Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the tool, you will need Windows Performance Toolkit 4.7, which is part of Windows Software Development Toolkit 7.1.
You don't need to install the complete SDK on a server; instead you can simply launch the installation from the Setup\
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