"Malformed perfmon object, index 4" -- ???

[jeremym]

I get about a billion of these events in my event log every day.

Anyone know how to stop them?

Thanks.

[RDPetruska]

Host OS? Workstation version?

[jeremym]

Host: Vista

Version: 6.0.0 - 45731

[SteDon81]

Hi there! I think I got a solution for this problem!

See thread "VMWare 6.0 Event Log Errors": http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=714055&#714055

Hope, it helps also you!

Regards,

Stefan D.

[j_mosk]

Stefan:

That's a good post.. but I tried running the command

LODCTR /r

but there appears to be MORE switches required.

/r: filename is what the command returns as required..

but I don't have a filename.

Am I misunderstanding how to execute LODCTR ?

Let me know..

Thanks in advance !

[SteDon81]

Hi j_mosk,

since I didn't experience your error, I can only guess, that on your system not only this performance counter database but also the corresponding ini files and registry entries are lost.

I came across a knowledge base articel that might help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956/en-us

In my case, when I typed in "lodctr /r", it just rebuilt the index database (or something similar). Have you paid attention, that you don't type in "lodctr /r:" (with a colon)? Perhaps, also try "lodctr /R" (capital R) as noted in the knowledge base article above.

Good luck,

Stefan D.

[jbb23]

On Vista, I had to run as admin the command prompt to get it to work (and then had to restart the VM Ware Auth service) but that did it for me.

Thanks,

Jase