when you try to get performance information you receive the following error at the initialiser

Dim Ram As New Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter(“Memory”, “Available MBytes”)

Input string was not in a correct format

Starting “perfmon” from your run box to open the performance monitor presents you with a message box

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Performance Monitor Control
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Unable to add these counters:

\Memory\Available MBytes
\Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use
\Memory\Cache Faults/sec
\Memory\Cache Faults/sec
\PhysicalDisk(*)\% Idle Time
\PhysicalDisk(*)\Avg. Disk Queue Length
\Network Interface(*)\Bytes Total/sec
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OK
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Easy fix, you need to rebuild your performance counters. I copied c:\windows\system32\PerfStringBackup.ini from a machine whos counters were working, replaced the one on the broken machine. Open a command prompt, navigate to the same location and run the following

lodctr /R:PerfStringBackup.INI

This will reload your counters

If that fails try what microsoft suggest Here