Have you ever wondered how to list all performance counters that are present on your computer? Well, I have and after some research I discovered the TypePerf.exe command. Believe it or not, TypePerf.exe is installed by default on all Windows versions after Windows 2000. The syntax looks like this (tested on a Vista machine).
C:>TypePerf.exe –q > counters.txt
This command will list all performance counters on your computer and save it to a text file named counters.
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– Marek.Z
Great. Thanks. This is what I was looking for. And it works…
I tried to oen in my loacal PC. I am able to see the counters.txt file, but i did not find any values in that text pad. Please let me know how we can able to see the list of counters with values. Thanks in advance..
Hi,
Just tested it on Windows 8. Still works fine. Do you run it as Administrator?
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Didn’t work for me at first either, even when running as admin. worked after i remover”.exe”
c:\>typeperf -q > counters.txt
Thanks Marek, got me on the right track and was a huge help.
Wierd 🙂 But okay, thanks for your feedback!
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And if you are using a non-english operating system (like Windows 2012 R2 German) and your textfile does not display the umlauts correctly, then you just use the output function of typeperf itself:
typeperf -q -o counters.txt
Great! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank you very much!
This is very useful to know. Thanks a lot
This is awesome. Anyone know how to also get the description with each counter? Thanks!
Thank you!