Any chance you can walk me thru this process? You can assume I have zero experience doing such a reg hack. Otherwise, I have to do it my way, which is to use the basic .net 1.1 only. Windows Update always wants to fix my outdated version however.
BTW, my "fix" does work. The .net 2.0 and 3.0 don't appear to cause a problem. It's the 1.1 update that's the culprit. I have to custom install from Windows Update so that I DON'T install the 1.1 update. Kind of a PITA.
click Start
click Run
type regedit
on the left pane, open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfProc\Performance
Disable Performance Counter will appear on right side.
right click it
select Modify
set value to 0.