Finding Extensible Counters Used by Performance Monitor

 Last reviewed: September 18, 1997
Article ID: Q158874
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SUMMARY

When troubleshooting objects and counters being used by Performance Monitor, you need to locate all the Extensible Counters. Extensible Counters are counters that are added to Performance Monitor by applications. Examples of applications that add counters to Windows NT are SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange. Both of those applications install extensible counters to Windows NT.

MORE INFORMATION

Use Exctrlst.exe, which comes in the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit, to bring up a list of all of the Extensible Counters found in the Registry. The location of the counters is: 

   Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\
      ServiceName\Performance\Library.
Exctrlst.exe can be run locally or remotely.

If you believe that one of the Extensible Counters is causing a problem on your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q152513
   TITLE     : Troubleshooting Performance Monitor Counter Problems.

Additional query words: access violation RPC error SSD 1.18 prodnt 4.00
Keywords : ntreskit NTSrvWkst kbtool
Version : 4.0
Platform : winnt

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Last reviewed: September 18, 1997
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