Disk+performance+counters+Disable+them

Disk performance counters Disable them

You may not know that Windows XP contains a built in performance monitor that is constantly examining various areas of your system.

This information can be called up using the performance monitor application found in Control Panel\Administrative Tools.

Of course, most of us have little interest in this sort of performance statistics monitoring, that being more the territory of systems administrators than individual users.

The thing is, XP is still monitoring away, and some of its observation tools can use a considerable amount of resources.

The disk monitoring is an example of this, and itʹs a good idea to turn the disk monitors off if you are not planning to use the performance monitor application.

Go to :‐

Start > Run in the box type without the quotes “cmd “

When the Black DOS screen appears at the chevron > type again without the quotes “ diskperf –N “ Note the space after the f

You will get an explanation of what you are doing and also how to reverse your actions For example “ diskperf –Y “