Performance Monitor not sampling at all

[joshblair]

Hello,

I am trying to write some C# .NET (VS.NET 2003) code to populate a
custom performance counter on my local machine but my Performance
Monitor is not sampling at all. Not even regular builtin counters
like:

\Processor(_Total)\%Processor Time
\Memory\Pages/sec
etc.

I have the sampling set to 1 sec and tried other values but nothing is
happening.

Any ideas what might cause my box to not sample?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Service Pack 2, all the latest updates

One thing that I found in the Event Viewer is:
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Windows Defender Real-Time Protection agent has detected spyware or
other potentially unwanted software.
For more information please see the following:
http://www.microsoft.com
Scan ID: {8E25B079-9AA9-476B-B290-15E90C1FC3E6}
User: DOMAIN\JOSH
Name: Unknown
ID:
Severity ID:
Category ID:
Path Found: service:<my DLL Name>
Alert Type: Unknown
Detection Type:


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Thanks,

Josh

 

[Guest]

This isn't any help, but a couple of weeks ago the same thing started to be a
problem on my machine. PerfMon won't display any data though I've set it to
display current activity. I have tried several sets of counters to no avail.
I'd sure be interested to know if you found out the cause.