How to profile Windows explorer.exe

Question

Hi,

What tool / technique would you recommend for Explorer.exe profiling?

Mainly on Windows XP / x86...

To avoid confusion it is not a system kind of question. Imagine, you have developed a BHO or another shell extension and you have to profile it.

For now, I'm using AMD CodeAnalyst, but I'm looking for somethign better suiting for purpose.

Cheers, Stefan

Answer 1

This belongs in serverfault.com, yes?

Try Process Explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Answer 2

If you're on Vista, XPerf is what Microsoft uses to test app perf.