Performance Counters are damaged.

Found at the customer station that all perfomance counters are damaged and only numbers appears in the performance monitor app.
My application is failing when tried to use perfomance counters "Input string incorrect format".

Solution:
run command:
lodctr.exe /r

Performance monitor now ok, as well as my application too.

XP Baloons tips

It is great, no more stupid baloons from Win XP systray.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Advanced
create DWORD value EnableBalloonTips and set it to zero.

How to run program as a different user

“runas /user:myComputer\administrator "explorer /separate"”

http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2005/09/17/470001.aspx