Windows 2003 performance monitor counters missing

This fixed the problem for me immediatyely. Did not require a reboot or anything. Wednesday, March 10, PM. Also worked for me. Tuesday, January 31, PM. Thank You! You saved me time and time is money! All else failed. The Point is, that the Initial Performance Counters still work tested with a predefined and stored set of counters , however I cannot add any of the original Performance Counters when I start perfmon. Can anybode confirm, and tell me how to switch them back to the original ones?

Does someone know the file name from which the "Add Perfomance Counters" window reads the available Counters? Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Last Published Date. Information Title. Performance counters are not working or missing in PerfMon.

This article describes the following issues with performance counters when they are not working properly or missing: Invalid class errors are displayed. Environment Select the products and versions this article pertains too. NPM Windows Performance counters are not working or missing.

Verify that the counters are available on Performance Monitor. If not, you would need to add these missing counters. You can either change the value to 0 or delete the entry. Note: Create a backup of the entry and contact your system administrator before making changes to the registry. Restart the Windows Management Instrumentation service.

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Check the following registry locations to ensure that the counters haven't been disabled:. There may be registry keys for DisablePerformanceCounters in any of these locations. As per the article Disable Performance Counters , this value should be set to 0.

If the value is anything other than 0 the counter may be disabled. To rebuild all performance counters including extensible and third-party counters, type the following commands at an Administrative command prompt.

INI contains the proper information. You can copy this file from an identical machine to restore the counters.