I appreciate knowing about it, Alex. It seems it's more for managing an enterprise of images of Microsoft Software... like where you have 1000 PCs you have to push OSs and Patches to. It's not that it isn't interesting. More that it is a 747 when most folks here need a Cessna. Looks like it might have a bit of a learning curve as well as a big foot print.

Alex, Thank You for this information, I going to try this as soon as I get a chance.

Be careful about using stuff like this from Microsoft. I'm not saying this is a bad tool, but...
 
At one point I had the entire Visual Studio stuff, debuggers and so on and I use the Windows LOGO Certification Toolkit for Windows 7 to do some tests.
The Certification tool had something that would capture the entire machine state - Registry and all files on all volumes - let you do an install - and then run again and report ALL the changes between those times.
 
However, this interfered with the installation and registration of some dlls in Sonar X1. It took a while to figure that one out.
 
And uninstalling the Logo Certification toolkit did not uninstall the registry scanning filters that were messing up the Sonar registration.  I had to edit the registry to remove them.
 
Maybe Sonar X1 was not Logo-compliant, but I feel the tool itself is even less compliant.
 
When I upgraded to Windows 8, I abandoned all the extra system tools, debug symbols, etc., etc. I don't regret that decision for a minute. You might not know what sort of system hooks these are adding to capture that sort of data.
 
 

arachnaut
Be careful about using stuff like this from Microsoft.

+1
 
I'm a pro/career software developer and I have no developer tools or databases installed on my DAW.

Huh, sadly it looks like M$'s reputation precedes them in these forums... ;)
Anyways..... Looking at my instructions I wonder if Deployment tools and Assessment toolkit is needed now, and just install performance tools.
Weird though I haven't had any issues so far.... Anyways as I say I prefer latency monitor most of the time, it's just another tool.

Anyway I beg to differer, with the latest tools Microsoft has quite nicely avoided bloat and DLL hell, even with Visual studio 2013 it seems. And nope you wouldn't catch me dead with Visual Studio on my DAW PC, that is on my pro development laptop upstairs ;)