Reliability & Performance Not Working

Hi, I did a fresh install of Vista and went through my usual disabling various services and deleting unwanted files/programs. On my first look at the Reliability & Performance meters (CPU, Disk, Network & Memory) I see they are all at 0, and are not working. I'm wondering whether I have mistakenly disabled a service or deleted needed files. I don't think I have, but otherwise I can't think what's up. Any ideas welcome. Thanks.

 

Hehe...there's a joke just waiting to be made in this.

 

Haha, I noticed the title too.

A fitting complaint to have with Vista.

 

I think your diagnosis is correct, but I can't figure out which services are used by Vista's monitor application. Are you able to go into the Management console and manually start disabled services?

John

 

Hi, Well I can get into the R & P console, where there's a "start the resource monitor" button. Unfort that doesn't start things. I can't see any services that are disabled that might effect things. I'm not too bothered by it not working, I have Everest's OSD display anyway for monitoring, but I'm baffled.

Update: I think it has to do with the Event log service, which is set to auto, but doesn't start. Trying to start it manually gives "error 4201 The instance name passed was not recognised as valid by a WMI data provider".

Reading round the 'Vista Community: Discussion Groups' @ http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx , this error, though usually associated with Backup, is effecting other. Someone mentioned UAC (which I have off), but even on I can't start the service. Well if I figure it I'll update here.