WPR/WPA in Practice — A Primer on Investigating "the Whole PC Is Slow" Across the Entire System (archived 2026-09-08)

Abstract

Investigate a slow PC or slow startup that Task Manager cannot explain with an OS-wide ETW trace: capture with wpr.exe, then read CPU, waits, and disk I/O in WPA. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/wpr-wpa-system-performance-analysis/, as published on 2026-09-08. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-08-21.