how to stop perfmon.exe?

Reaper 392 · 23 Mar 2012 at 00:25

a quick google tells me that its a performance monitoring program by windows, but since it has a habit of eating my entire hard drive and almost crashing my computer at the most inopportune times i'd rather like to tell it to get stuffed on a permanent basis. is there any way of doing this without windows crying at me?

(also, a way of stopping windows from automatically downloading updates, installing them without me knowing and then restarting the PC while im in the middle of a game would be fantastic)

Shadz · 23 Mar 2012 at 00:58

With regards to the windows updates just go into your control panel and go to windows updates
and then change the download settings.
Because I am a gamer I have it set it inform me of updates but not to download/install then
without me saying so first.

P.S. When you click Windows Updates in control panel click "Change Settings" on the left hand panel
assuming you are using Windows 7

EDIT: If you want to disable the .exe you stated above then go into msconfig and stop it from starting
up when the computer boots up mate, that will disable it and stop it from running.

Azuse05 · 23 Mar 2012 at 02:31

Wouldn't disabling it effect things like the reliability log? It shouldn't be causing problems tbh, so consider looking for a cure instead of trying to chop bits off windows?

Are you sure it's not the wei? Any pattern?

moogle · 23 Mar 2012 at 02:46

How do you know it's crashing your computer? Either way it should be closed unless you're running it specifically.

Reaper 392 · 23 Mar 2012 at 09:30

moogle said:
How do you know it's crashing your computer? Either way it should be closed unless you're running it specifically.

well, perfmon.exe was taking up pretty much my entire harddrive's read/write capacity, and as soon as it stopped my computer went from barely responding to any inputs to working normally

thanks for the tips guys, i'll take a look into it later

moogle · 23 Mar 2012 at 11:03

Did you have perfmon open to see that? That would be the only way to find out if it really was using the hard drive would be to run it and see, as it's name implies it's the Performance monitor tool where you can see what processes are using the hard drive and what their read/writes are.