Perfmon won't disable sampling

[MilesAhead]

Even if I go from the "real administrator account" and uncheck "sample automatically" from the Performance monitor properties, if I close it, then open it, the checkbox is checked again!! I get the feeling it doesn't want to let me disable it. I'm getting a HD LED pulse every second like a clock. This could be the cause. Anyone know how to turn this off? If I go into Services applet the performance and notifications service is on Manual and not running, so that's not it.

 

[logicearth]

It is not Performance Monitor...It is only active when you are actually running it. Or when a task is setup to fire it when you created an alert. Sample Automatically is for the graph to auto refresh.

 

[MilesAhead]

I see. Thanks for the info. I'm getting LED light up every second so when I saw a 1 second interval there I thought I might have the culprit.

This is really getting annoying. 24 hours a day seven days a week this LED pulses every second!!

 

[logicearth]

Cut the cables to the LED...will never pulse again. I'm being very serious.

 

[MilesAhead]

Cut the cables to the LED...will never pulse again. I'm being very serious.

Yeah, that's real helpful. I could unplug the PC too.

 

[MilesAhead]

Hmmmmmm, whatever it is, it goes away when I disable the CDROM in device manager. I have AutoRun set to 0. That should fix it. Apparently not in W7.

As soon as I enable the CDROM in device manager, the 1 second ticking starts right up again.

 

[MilesAhead]

Okay I can't change the headline afaik so if the Moderator wants to delete this topic that would be fine. It should likely be posted in the Drivers forum instead. I'll go there.