Corrupted Performance Counters May Disappear or Be Unavailable to Perfmon

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This article was previously published under Q275659

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SYMPTOMS

Performance counters may become corrupted. If this occurs, the counters appear as numbered objects, or disappear completely and become unavailable in the Perfmon tool. Subsequently, a corrupted performance counter may result in inaccurate data or a total loss of performance data from that counter.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260910/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date      Time    Version        Size    File name
   -----------------------------------------------------
   10/05/00  2:54pm  5.0.2195.2424  67,344  Loadperf.dll

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

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MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249149/EN-US/ ) Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

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