How to Easily Monitor System Performance with the new DiskLED 1.1
DiskLED is a small tool that displays performance counter data using an animated system tray icon. The new version 1.1 comes with a graphical configuration dialog that lets you choose from all performance counters available on the local system – you can monitor network throughput just as easily as hard disk activity or memory usage. In this article, I am going to show you how to do that.
Update 2018-06-17: DiskLED’s page was moved here: https://helgeklein.com/free-tools/diskled
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I get the error InitPDH: PdhAddCounter failed with 0xc0000bb8. When I go to select the Data Source Object, Physical Disk is not in the list. Any ideas?
Dell OptiPlex790, Windows 7 Pro SP1 64bit, 8 Gig ram.
I’m also get the error InitPDH: PdhAddCounter failed with 0xc0000bb8. And in Data Source Object there is no Phsical Disk is not in the list.
I’m using winodws 7 x64. It was working for a while then it started to get this error for some reason.
Don
Using Windows 7 64-bit and getting error InitPDH: PdhAddCounter failed with 0xc0000bb8. And in Data Source Object there is no Phsical Disk is not in the list. In the same boat as the other two people above, what to do?
Using Windows 7 64-bit and getting error InitPDH: PdhAddCounter failed with 0xc0000bb8 , same her rite after a AMD /ATI catalyst control center update .
it seems ot have changed my AMD sata driver , and i can’t seem to revert with any success.
Can’t get it to work. :(
Gives the error, “OnTimer: PdhCollectQueryData failed with : 0x800007d5 PDG_No_DATA – No data is available for this performance counter.
Tried to reconfigure but no counters show up in the drop-down.
You guys should rebuild the Windows performance counter. It worked for me on W7 Professional 64-Bit SP1 and solved the ” PdhAddCounter failed with 0xc0000bb8″ issue.
Rebuild performance counter with these steps:
1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. Right-click cmd in the Programs list, and then click Run as administrator.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation,
type your password or click Continue
3. At the command prompt, type the following line, and then press ENTER: Lodctr /r
4. You will receive the following message:
“Info: Successfully rebuilt performance counter setting from system backup store”
5. Exit Command Prompt
If you try this and get an error Error: Unable to rebuild performance counter setting from system backup store, error code is 2
Try this:
C:\Windows\system32>cd ..
C:\Windows>cd syswow64
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>Lodctr /r
Info: Successfully rebuilt performance counter setting from system backup store
I looked at the params which seemed to be in caps. After getting error code is 2 I ran Lodctr /R and it worked. Maybe just luck.
It worked for me too.
Folgendes Problem:
DiskLED braucht bei einem einzigen Rechner (eigentlich nur bei einer Windows 8-64 Installation auf einer Partition) rund 5MB Arbeitsspeicher. Auf allen anderen Installationen (auch am selben Rechner) ist der Arbeitsspeicherbedarf wesentlich geringer (startet zwar auch bei etwa 5MB sinkt jedoch danach recht rasch ab). Was mache ich falsch?
Hello all, thank you Eugen, I did what you typed and it fixed it works nice too!
Eugen you are great! why didn’t they put a clear explanation as yousr in the first place?
but now, I can I get it to start at boot? I don’t remember :(
I have two instances of DiskLED v1.1.1 running on Win 10 Home x64. One instance for Drive “C” and one instance for drive “D” . I was not able to get the program to display two LED icons in the system tray using the INI file so I remarked out the second Performance Counter lines and made two directories with two different INI files to be able to display both my hard drives simultaneously in the tray. My question is can the icon’s background/border color be changed and a “C” or “D” be added via the INI files?
I have the same question as John D. Can the background color be changed for the icons? As is, in Windows 10 default, the black icon background makes the tray appear to be missing until there is drive activity and it flashes. A light background icon set is a common option now. I realize there has been no update for quite a while, but hoping the developer still monitors this comment form. I really like this applet because it’s the smallest memory footprint out of all the tray icon disk activity apps I have tried. It would be nice for at least a light icon set choice. I can think of more config options that would be great to have for tinkering, but just releasing an update with a light icon set would be perfect. Or maybe release it as open source now that there is has been no development in several years? Hope to hear back!
Brian
Here you go: https://helgeklein.com/blog/2018/06/diskled-is-now-open-source/