MSO-Scripts

Democratizing Windows Performance Analysis

Documentation

MSO-Scripts substantially facilitates the use of Microsoft's Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) technology for analyzing the resource consumption (CPU, Memory, I/O, Handles, Registry, ...) and performance behavior of Windows and its applications, particularly Microsoft Office.

MSO-Scripts also reveals detailed network activity by way of an add-in for the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA).

Please see the wiki for detailed documentation.

Quick Start

There are eleven customizable scripts for tracing various system resources:

• TraceCPU
• TraceFileDiskIO
• TraceHandles   (Kernel, GDI, and USER handles)
• TraceHeap        (Windows Heap + VirtualAlloc)
• TraceHeapEx     (Windows Heap + VirtualAlloc + Handles)
• TraceMemory   (RAM usage, etc.)
• TraceMondo     (CPU + FileDiskIO + Handles + Network + Defender)
• TraceNetwork   (Chromium, WinHTTP, WinINet, LDAP, WinSock, TcpIp)
• TraceOffice       (Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word: ETW Trace and Office Logs)
• TraceOutlook   (ETW Trace and Office/Outlook Logs)
• TraceRegistry

The scripts accept these tracing commands: Start, Stop, View, Status, Cancel These commands, except View, require Administrator privilege.

To trace CPU activity:

• Download and unzip MSO-Scripts.
• MSO-Scripts\TraceCPU Start
  Exercise the application/scenario.
• MSO-Scripts\TraceCPU Stop
• MSO-Scripts\TraceCPU View   Launches the Windows Performance Analyzer

List all options for TraceCPU:

• MSO-Scripts\TraceCPU -?

  See the Wiki: TraceCPU

Contributing

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