HOWTO: Get Perfmon processor and system objects on windows XP Embedded

[Snoussi, Taha]

Many articles in MS newsgroups and other forums speek about this issue:

Processor performance object missing from XPE image
http://xpefiles.com/cs/forums/p/571/1049.aspx

Missing Processor Performance Counter in Windows XP Embedded
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...e9d7&mid=6bd3f21f-e6ea-4927-a64d-756261bedcda

This doesn't work all the time on Windows XP Embedded

So, what you have to do is just to import the registry key
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfOS from an XP pro
This enables the perfos system service and gives then the necessary
resources to perfmon to get the missing objects.

HTH
Regards,
Taha SNOUSSI

 

[Henry Markov]

I have always been able to obtain CPU utilization but I use my own code.
The problem I had when starting with SP1 was that I eventually found via NG
questions that a page file was necessary to get performance data even in my
ramdisk-based system. Does anyone know if the undocumented page file
dependency has been eliminated in versions after SP1?

HM

 

[Snoussi, Taha]

I found nothing documented here on this problem with SP2 or SP3.
And these missing registry keys should have been fixed in SP3, but noting is
done...
Am I wrong Sean?