Monitoring CPU usage of Win devices with different languages using typeperf %Processor Time

Question

I use Windows 10 and above for my project in English, Spanish, etc. I am monitoring CPU usage of Win devices using typeperf %Processor Time. I want to run typeperf in devices with different locale without having to change object or counter. I see we have perflib from registry. How can I use the ID of the object or counter to fetch CPU usage in different languages, since the counter depends on the locale? Will perflib be available on all devices?

Answer 1

You can try numerical identifiers from perflib. I remember that the identifiers are consistent regardless of the system locale.

In the registry, perflib has a identifier for the locale like 009 for English or 010 for Spanish.

• **HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib
  **
  So you can find what is available there, and navigate to the performance object and work with them.

You can utilize something like this: typeperf "\238(_Total)\6"

• \238 represents the ID of the performance object
• total for summary of all instances
• \6 for the processor time value

So if you follow the numeric IDs, they do not change with the system language settings.

You can learn the syntax here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/typeperf