Quincy Center for Technical Education
Computer Technology Department

Diskperf

Controls the types of counters that can be viewed using System Monitor.

diskperf [-y[d|v]|-n[d|v] [\\computername]

Parameters

none

Reports whether disk performance counters are enabled on the local or specified computer and identifies the counters enabled: for physical drives, logical drives, or both.

-y

Sets the system to start both physical and logical disk performance counters when the system is restarted.

-yd

Enables disk performance counters used for measuring performance of physical drives when the system is restarted. This is the default setting.

-yv

Enables disk performance counters used for measuring performance of logical drives when the system is restarted.

-n

Sets the system to not use any disk performance counters when the system is restarted.

-nd

Disables disk performance counters for physical drives when the system is restarted.

-nv

Disables disk performance counters for logical drives when the system is restarted.

computername

Specifies the computer on which you want to see or set disk performance counter use. If a computer name is not specified, the local computer is assumed.