Saturday, April 12, 2008

Performance Counter on XP with no PageFile What A PAIN!!!!

Yesterday, I was testing some software that uses performance counters and tracks history...etc....etc...very fancy.

When I realized that I didn't have a processor or memory performance object...

What the heck?

I mean these are standard Windows counters...after lots of work and digging I downloaded WindowsXP-KB838079-SupportTools-ENU.exe and using the tool that is part of the download called "exctrlst.exe". It allows you to enable performance objects and I enabled the PerfOS Object and life was good.