{"id":752,"date":"2016-04-03T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T09:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=752"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T11:01:23","slug":"how-to-repair-windows-performance-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/04\/03\/how-to-repair-windows-performance-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to repair Windows Performance Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winb.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">Windows provides a Performance Monitor to analyze some system parameters like CPU load, Memory usage or other parameters. But what's, if Performance Monitor is broken? This blog post discusses, how to repair perfmon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can use perfmon in Windows 7 up to Windows 10 \u2013 either via Windows GUI (enter perform and select Performance Monitor \u2013 or opens a command prompt and enter  <\/p>\n<p><em>perfmon \/report<br \/><em>perfmon \/rel<\/em><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>or similar commands (<a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/ff723776.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see<\/a>). In some cases perfmon refuses to create a report, due to corrupted registry entries or too much log entries. In this cases perfmon can't add counters to the performance report or doesn't show reliable results. It's time to repair perfmon. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open a command prompt windows with administrator credentials (for instance type <em>cmd <\/em>in search box and press Strg+Shift+Enter (or use context menu item <em>run as administrator<\/em>) and confirm UAC.\n<li>Enter the command <em>lodctr \/r <\/em>and press Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The tool <em>lodctr<\/em> is available to repair perfmon. It tries to repair broken registry entries. Try to run perfmon afterward.  <\/p>\n<h3>Delete log files in PerfLog folder<\/h3>\n<p>In some cases too much log file entries may cause a perfmon failure. Then fire up <em>explorer.exe<\/em> and navigate to folder: <\/p>\n<p><em>C:\\PerfLogs\\Admin<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Delete all log file entries found within this folder (requires administrator rights) \u2013 see this <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_vista-performance\/cannot-generate-system-health-report-ie-time-out\/69e45436-e674-4f7d-b1ae-fb2df2e0aa5c\">MS Answers post<\/a>. Hope this helps to fix perfmon issues.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160301160142\/http:\/\/blogs.technet.com:80\/b\/neiljohn\/archive\/2012\/01\/16\/performance-monitor-tips-and-tricks-with-john-rodriguez.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Performance Monitor Tips and Tricks<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tajendrasengar.blogspot.de\/2011\/11\/how-to-start-stop-perfmon-from-command.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HOW TO START , STOP PERFMON FROM THE COMMAND LINE IN WINDOWS ?<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows provides a Performance Monitor to analyze some system parameters like CPU load, Memory usage or other parameters. But what's, if Performance Monitor is broken? This blog post discusses, how to repair perfmon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[215,35,194],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-perfmon","tag-troubleshooting","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}