Disable Disk Monitor in Windows XP

Windows XP has a built in performance monitor that examines various areas of your system. Most of us have little interest in this sort of performance monitoring application.

Geek translation: it’s more for businesses than it it is for home users. This can slow down your PC so turn it off.

Click “start”, “Run” and type in cmd. If you did everything correct, your window will now look like this…

Click “OK”. You now see a window that looks like this…

Just type in diskperf -N like seen in the above screenshot and press enter on your keyboard. Don’t worry, even though there was no message telling you Disk Monitor was disabled, it was.