This is from my stupid demo trick series (okay, this is the first in such a series, and may be the last….). With a recent Windows 7 demo I was doing there is a set of perf counters I wished to show quickly in a report view. Setting it up is a many click process:

1. Run Perfmon
2. Click on Perfmonance Monitor
3. Go to Add counters
4. Delete the Processor Counters
5. Scroll through the list of counters to the one I want
6. Add it
7. FAIL, you really added other counters
8. Delete thoose, find the real ones, add them
9. Click twice on the report button to change the Graph Type to report

Considering that I want to be talking to people about some great new feature not practicing my mouse skills, I really wanted this to be a single step open a shortcut sort of thing. Well rejoice for me, because I figured out how to do this.

1. Run mmc
2. Add the performance snapin
3. Do all the steps from before
4. turn off Actions and the console tree
5. File –> Save As “DemoCounter.msc”

Now, All I have to do is open the msc file I created. It goes directly to the counters and the view I want.

tada.!