Disable Performance Counters

Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Jason

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several areas of your PC’s performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea.

To disable:
1. download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List
2. Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the ‘performance counters enabled’ checkbox at the bottom.button below

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2 Responses to “Disable Performance Counters”

  1. Jase on 04 Aug 2008 at 1:57 pm #

    If you do this, your COM+ installation will fail. “Out of memory to perform this operation”.

  2. nonW00t on 11 Oct 2009 at 12:45 am #

    wrong Jase, must be a specific system problem for you unfortunately

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