Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Enabling Disk Performance Counters for Windows Task Manager

Enabling Disk Performance Counters for Windows Task Manager


When I was reading Windows server document, I seen some picture in task manager windows tab displayed all hard disk drive partitions in performance tab as following display picture. Normally default windows tab this won’t display.


Well! How can we add this?
With using following steps you can add this facility to your session (login) related task manager.

Step 1: Enabling Disk Performance Counters

1.    Ensure Task Manager is closed.
2.    Launch the Command Prompt using the "Run as Administrator" option.
3.    Enter the following at the Command Prompt:
diskperf -Y

4.     Hit Enter.
5.    Close the Command Prompt.
6.    Re-open the Task Manager.