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Missing Performance Counters

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A few days ago, I noticed that most of the usual performance counters were not available in perfmon. When I started perfmon and selected "Performance Monitor" in the TreeView on the left hand side I got an Error Message "Cannot initialize MMC Snap-In". But If I clicked on the same item the second time it works, but then I tried to use some of the standard performance counters like Processor, Logical Disk or Memory, they were missing in the List. Also all .NET and SQL performance counters were not available. Even a system reboot (Windows Vista SP1) did not bring back the standard performance counters.

After some more investigation I found the following knowledge base article:

How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values.
Article ID: (KB)300956

This article is originally related to Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, but I tried the part which is listed under Rebuilding all Performance Counters worked for me. Just open a Command Prompt running under administrator rights and do the following:

C:> cd windows\system32

C:\Windows\System32> lodctr /R

After that all Performance Counters were available again!

Hope this helps anybody else too

Martin

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2008
    PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/index.php/2008/11/18/missing-performance-counters/

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2011
    Thank you so much, I needed to take a screen shot of a few counters for a Administration class and I could not figure out why the counters that I am suppose to use where not there. This suggestion worked great with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.

  • Anonymous
    July 19, 2012
    It help me too, to resolve an ongoing issue. Thanks a lot .

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2013
    saved my afternoon...thanks Martin...

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2013
    Great job here, it worked instantly!!!!

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2014
    Error: Unable to rebuild performance counter setting from system backup store, e rror code is 5

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2014
    .Net counter were gone, after rebuild, i need to find out,  how to add .net coutners

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2016
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