what's up with the performance monitor?

why did M$ wreck the performance monitor? i can't get to view the monitor because it's stuck in a directory (c:\perflogs) that i don't have permission to access. what a crock.

unless someone can point out something i'm doing wrong. but i added counters, only to see that it's output was something in that perflogs directory.

and bill, what kinda drugs were you taking when you made windows 7? because never in my whole entire life did i ever have so many directories on my computer that i can't access. what on God's green earth were you THINKing?

right click on taskbar and select task manager
go to performance tab
and click resource monitor button

Your trying to check an administrative tool but you dont have admin access to your own machine? What drugs are you taking?

If you don't like windows 7, dont use it.

leQ said:

why did M$ wreck the performance monitor? i can't get to view the monitor because it's stuck in a directory (c:\perflogs) that i don't have permission to access. what a crock.

unless someone can point out something i'm doing wrong. but i added counters, only to see that it's output was something in that perflogs directory.

and bill, what kinda drugs were you taking when you made windows 7? because never in my whole entire life did i ever have so many directories on my computer that i can't access. what on God's green earth were you THINKing?

You need to learn how to use the OS before you start blaming MS for your woes.

I SOMEHOW don't have any issues that you describe, kinda funny huh?

swarfega said:

right click on taskbar and select task manager
go to performance tab
and click resource monitor button

and that gets me all these counters that i have no interest in. all i wanna know are the 2 data-types of bytes sent and bytes received. iow, a monitor of the network interface.

but thanks for that tip on the take ownership .reg file. that will come in handy, moreso now as many of these directories are inaccessible to me.

as for security, i create restore points everytime i open regedit. or do something such as take ownership of a file that could do harm to my system.

and thanks to all of you for your thoughts. i must have had a bad hair day that day.

maybe i wasn't clear about the performance issue.

i like to have counters from the network adapters' bytes in and bytees out, graphed. i was able to get what i wanted by going what y'all have said (typing perfmon in the start menu.

so thanks everybody, the issue is resolved.