HDD activity monitor

[John]

Michael,
It works great on my work machine running Windows 2000.

I get the same error as Vortex on my home machine with XP Pro and SP2. The pdh.dll version is 00000503 and the error code returned is:
C0000BB8

I also don't see the PhysicalDisk counter in the app that farrier posted.

[MichaelW]

C0000BB8 is PDH_CSTATUS_NO_OBJECT, "The specified machine was found, but no matching performance object was found on that machine."

I have updated the original attachment with a modified version that should work OK with localized languages other than English.

[Phoenix]

Works like a charm  :U

[farrier]

Phoenix,

Thanks for the list of Index numbers.  Where did you get that list, or did you construct it?

MichaelW,

In your latest 'Multi-Lingual' program, you use the proper index number to retrieve the corresponding string for the index.  You do that for the:

objectName   originally   PhysicalDisk
counterName   originally   % Disk Time

But you leave the

instanceName   originally   _Total

as is.  Would not this normally be translated into the local language?  Or does the underscore imply a Global/Total value?  It seems that this 'instance' has either this _Global/_Total value and then values specific to hardware or software installed on the particular machine.

Thanks for your help with this subject!!

farrier

[MichaelW]

Microsoft apparently does not translate the instance names. If I pass the instance name '_Total' to PdhLookupPerfIndexByName it returns PDH_STRING_NOT_FOUND, and an index value of zero. For an index value of zero PdhLookupPerfNameByIndex returns zero, which is ERROR_SUCCESS, but the returned string has a length of zero. This all seems kind of sloppy to me, because while some instance names might be reasonably universal, '_Total' is not.

[Vortex]

Hi MichaelW,

Many thanks for the new upload, it works fine on my Win XP HE Sp2 :U

[Phoenix]

Farrier,

this list is a direct copy from the registry. You will find the list of counters (and help) here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009

and there is an additional entry for your local language, i. e. for german:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\007

It took me some time to recall where i found this information, i could have posted the key directly... :red

Regards, Phoenix


Edit:

Additional location: C:\WINDOWS\system32\PerfStringBackup.INI --> [PerfStrings_007] and [PerfStrings_009]

[Ghirai]

Very nice :U

Works great (XP Pro SP2).