PFE Tools

Tools and resources used by PFEs

https://aka.ms/pfe/tools

Downloads

• PerfView
• DebugDiag
• SysInternals - Docs
  • ProcessExplorer - Docs
  • ProcMon - Docs
  • ProcDump - Docs
  • TCPView - Docs
• Log Parser Studio
• Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool
• Netmon

Capture a Network Trace without installing anything

• Command

  netsh trace start persistent=yes capture=yes tracefile=c:\temp\nettrace-boot.etl

  After reproduce the problem, stop the tracing

  netsh trace stop

  Dont't forget to change the parser in Netmon in order to properly do the analysis

Chocolatey

• Install

  Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

• Allow Global Confirmation

  choco feature enable -n=allowGlobalConfirmation

• Install packages

  choco install sysinternals
  choco install cmder
  choco install vscode