Tools for IT professionals: Windows ADK, WPR and WPA

All of the tools that you need to customize, assess, and deploy Windows operating systems to new computers are included in The Windows® Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) and the likely scenarios are: assess quality on one or more computers, deploy Windows to many computers, review application compatibility, migrate user data and manage licenses. The Windows ADK comes with the Windows® Performance Recorder (WPR), which is a performance recording tool that is based on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). It records system events that you can then analyze by using Windows® Performance Analyzer (WPA). The file to be analyzed is a "Event Trace Log" kind of file with the extension .etl, for instance, COMPUTERNAME.09-10-2014.22-22-38.etl . You can download WPR by visiting http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=293840. These are extremely sophisticated tools, a geek's delight. Take a look to WPA in action here.