Process performance counter is disabled

[Max]

I'm trying to get the process id of some application and I get an error for this line:

Process [] myApplications= Process.GetProcessesByName("MyApplication");

The error says:

System.InvalidOperationException: Process performance counter is disabled, so the requested operation cannot be performed.
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(PerformanceCounterLib library)
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(String machineName, Boolean isRemoteMachine)
at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.GetProcessInfos( String machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Stri ng processName, String machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Stri ng processName)

How can I enable the performance counters? Is this required on all computers on which my application will run?

Cheers,
Max

[Ollie Riches]

check oput the following link, we had a similar problem and the link at
bottom helped:

http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/ar...21/267559.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframewo...aspx#Question7

HTH

Ollie Riches

"Max" <ma******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to get the process id of some application and I get an error
for this line:

Process [] myApplications= Process.GetProcessesByName("MyApplication");

The error says:

System.InvalidOperationException: Process performance counter is disabled,
so the requested operation cannot be performed.
at
System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(PerformanceCounterLib
library)
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(String machineName,
Boolean isRemoteMachine)
at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.GetProcessInfos( String machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Stri ng processName,
String machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Stri ng processName)

How can I enable the performance counters? Is this required on all
computers on which my application will run?

Cheers,
Max