On every boot, I get this error in the application event log:
Source: PerfNet
Category: None
Event ID: 2004
Unable to open the Server service. Server performance data will not be returned. Error code returned is in data DWORD 0.
If I disable the WMI service, the error goes away. Also, if I install file and print sharing, the error goes away. I can’t diable WMI because my company may be using some of it’s functionality in the future, and it also seems like a big workaround. I can’t install file and print sharing because it is a violation of our information security policy.
It seems to me that WMI is telling me “hey, there is no service to monitor, so I can’t initialize this performance object.” I may be just looking for a way to uninstall certain performance counters.
I could probably just ignore the error and not have any problems, but this is a base image that all future Win2K PCs will be ghosted with, and we really don’t want to rollout a template with this error coming up.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
