Welcome to the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering (PFE) Windows performance analysis guide. This is a web of interconnected documents intended to assist Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFE), Microsoft Support Professionals, and IT Professionals with...

You have arrived here because you have identified a high amount (greater than 50%) of processor time (\Processor(*)\% Processor Time), a high amount (greater than 30%) of privileged time (kernel time) (\Processor(*)\% Privileged Time) and a high amount...

You have arrived at this point in the adventure because you have identified high processor usage on your Windows computer. If this is not correct, then return to the Start of the Performance Guide. Threads (the worker bees of a process) can execute in...

If you have arrived here, then you have identified a low available RAM condition on your Windows computer. If this is not correct, then return to the Start of the Performance Guide. Available RAM Concepts When the counter “\Memory\Available MBytes"...