How to rebuild performance counters on Windows

Vista/Server2008/7/Server2008R2
YongRhee[MSFT.]
6 Oct 2009 9:57 AM
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Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
When some or all your counters show up as numbers
or
When your counters do not show up
or
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Perflib
Event ID: 1008 and others
In Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, if you wanted to rebuild the base
O.S. performance counters you had to go thru:
300956 How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300956
or use a tool such as exctrlst.exe to try disabling to see what counter had issues.
Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tool : Extensible Performance Counter List (exctrlst.exe)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7ff99683-
b7ec-4da6-92ab-793193604ba4
In Windows Vista/Server 2008 and higher, a very easy command to get your base O.S.
performance counters working:
Click on Start, CMD (evelated as an Administrator)
Type "C:" without the quotation marks and Enter.
Type "CD\windows\system32" without the quotation marks and Enter.
Type "LodCtr.exe /S:Backup_Original.INI" without the quotation marks and Enter.
Note: This let's you backup the performance counters before we rebuild.
Type "LodCtr.exe /R:PerfStringBackup.INI" without the quotation marks and Enter.
Open up Perfmon and check to see if your counters are showing up properly.
P.S. Other commands that you can use with LODCTR.exe
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C:\>lodctr.exe /?
LODCTR
Updates registry values related to performance counters.
Usage:
LODCTR <INI-FileName>
INI-FileName is the name of the initialization file that contains
the counter name definitions and explain text for an extensible
counter DLL.
LODCTR /S:<Backup-FileName>
save the current perf registry strings and info to <Backup-FileName>
LODCTR /R:<Backup-FileName>
restore the perf registry strings and info using <Backup-FileName>
LODCTR /R
rebuild the perf registry strings and info from scratch based on the cur
rent
registry settings and backup INI files.
LODCTR /T:<Service-Name>
set the performance counter service as trusted.
LODCTR /E:<Service-Name>
enable the performance counter service.
LODCTR /D:<Service-Name>
disable the performance counter service.
LODCTR /Q
LODCTR /Q:<Service-Name>
query the performance counter service information, either query all or s
pecified one.
LODCTR /M:<Counter-Manifest>
install Windows Vista performance counter provider definition XML file
to system repository.
Note: any arguments with spaces in the names must be enclosed within
Double Quotation marks.
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Perfmon