Windows 8 In Depth

TYPEPERF: Monitoring Performance

In Chapter 23, “Windows Management Tools,” you learned how to use the Performance Monitor utility to track the real-time performance of counters in various categories such as processor and memory.

For the details on the Performance Monitor utility, see “Using the Performance Monitor,” p. 554.

You can get the same benefit without the Performance Monitor GUI by using the powerful TYPEPERF command-line tool. Here’s the syntax:

TYPEPERF [counter1 [counter2 ...]] [-CF file] [-O file] [-F format] [-SI interval] [-SC samples] [-Q [object]] [-QX [object]] [-CONFIG file] [-S computer]

The official syntax of a counter ...