Troubleshooting Windows Vista performance?
As mentioned in my previous post about Windows Vista, I think it is too soon to judge new OS from Microsoft. What is important is that once we will get applications designed for Vista AND users\administrators will learn what advantages this OS really holds, we will be able to decide whether or not Windows Vista is success.
I am comparing Windows Vista to LAUNCH version of Windows XP - and because my judgements are mostly based on Vista internals and not based on pretty face (and features that are publicly promoted by Microsoft), I can see big potential in Windows Vista.
One of my expectations is that Vista will be able to run stable (with good performance) for longer time than XP - I think everybody knows situation that XP started after few months to be sluggish, respond slower, sometimes stops thinking about some philosophical problems...
For example as you probably already noticed Vista introduces much more complex log viewer structures - and today I found out that you can use event log to troubleshoot your performance - just go to Microsoft\Windows\Diagnostics-Performance\Operational.
Currently I can see only reports related to shutdown\startup\standby - and one problem related to desktop window manager (I was testing how much it can take ;)):
In details you can also see details what causes slow down. For example here NlaSvc shut down took 20009ms, which means degradation by 19617ms (in this case it was rare problem, so I dont need to to care):
This is just example of small extras that are implemented in Windows Vista - there is still lot to learn about this new OS ;)