Event ID 2004

[TMitchell]

I disabled the Server Service in Services (huh?), as I have a
stand-alone PC not connected to any network services (there's that word
again) and disabling it is supposed to give better security. But now
Event Viewer shows Event ID 2004 about PerfNet not behaving because it
couldn't connect to the Server Service. Is there a way to resolve this
error message short of re-enabling the Server Service?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Disable the counter perfnet.dll

Start|Run|exctrlst

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I disabled the Server Service in Services (huh?), as I have a
| stand-alone PC not connected to any network services (there's that word
| again) and disabling it is supposed to give better security. But now
| Event Viewer shows Event ID 2004 about PerfNet not behaving because it
| couldn't connect to the Server Service. Is there a way to resolve this
| error message short of re-enabling the Server Service?

 

[TMitchell]

Disable the counter perfnet.dll

Start|Run|exctrlst

My system doesn't seem to have or recognize "exctrlst". Is this
something I need to add to Windows XP from some outside source?

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can get the support tools here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...76-9BB9-4126-9761-BA8011FABF38&displaylang=en

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| My system doesn't seem to have or recognize "exctrlst". Is this
| something I need to add to Windows XP from some outside source?

 

[TMitchell]

Disable the counter perfnet.dll

Start|Run|exctrlst

I ran "exctrlst", and I still get the "perfnet" error message in Event
Viewer that is related to the msSQL service (which I do not need and
have disabled in "Services").

 

[Dave Patrick]

Did you disable the MSSQL counter DLL?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I ran "exctrlst", and I still get the "perfnet" error message in Event
| Viewer that is related to the msSQL service (which I do not need and
| have disabled in "Services").

 

[TMitchell]

Did you disable the MSSQL counter DLL?

I did not find an entry specifically for "msSQL", but did find and
disable the entry for "MSSQL$MICROSOFTSMLBIZ". This did not stop the
Event ID 2004 PerfNet error messages in Event Viewer. What did stop it
was disabling the PerfNet.dll. I suppose this is OK, right?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Yes, that was my first suggestion.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I did not find an entry specifically for "msSQL", but did find and
| disable the entry for "MSSQL$MICROSOFTSMLBIZ". This did not stop the
| Event ID 2004 PerfNet error messages in Event Viewer. What did stop it
| was disabling the PerfNet.dll. I suppose this is OK, right?