perfmon.xla

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John A Grandy

I am on WS03 and XP Pro and Excel 2003.

Back in the NT4 days ( 1999 ) there was an Excel add-in "perfmon.xla" that
allowed you to view Performance Monitor generated .csv files in Excel.

Apparently, at some point, this add-in was replaced with something else
because searching on the Microsoft main website, Microsoft downloads, MSDN
website, etc. yields no results for "perfmon.xla"

What was the perfmon.xla functionality replaced with ? Built-in Excel
functionality ? Some other add-in ? Something else ?

Thanks.
 
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John A Grandy

Yes I know I can find all sorts of hits for "perfmon.xla" on Google, but
that isn't my question and that doesn't help me. perfmon.xla is obsolete. I
am on XP Pro, WS03, Excel 03.

I am looking for a tool that allows me to graphically visualize perf counter
generated data that was saved to .csv files.

Did you know that when you reply to a posting it now appears to the really
knowledgeable people that provide good answers on these newsgroups as if the
question has been answered and so they don't take a look at it .... ?

So, because you posted a frivolous response to my posting, my posting will
now probably be overlooked by people who could provide an answer.
 
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Harlan Grove

John A Grandy wrote...
Yes I know I can find all sorts of hits for "perfmon.xla" on Google, but
that isn't my question and that doesn't help me. perfmon.xla is obsolete. I
am on XP Pro, WS03, Excel 03.
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Anything with a .xla extension can still be run under Excel 2003 with a
few exceptions involving XLM macros involving the REGISTER and CALL XLM
functions. Try running perfmon.xla under Excel 2003 before assuming it
no longer works.
Did you know that when you reply to a posting it now appears to the really
knowledgeable people that provide good answers on these newsgroups as if the
question has been answered and so they don't take a look at it .... ?
Click to expand...

You don't understand how these newsgroups work. Most frequent
respondents (the good, the bad and the ugly, not necessarily 3 disjoint
groups) read the responses as well as the original postings. Some could
be accused of preferring to critique responses rather than answering
OPs' questions.
So, because you posted a frivolous response to my posting, my posting will
now probably be overlooked by people who could provide an answer.
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Which begs the question whether you deserve a nonfrivolous response.
However, the first response you received wasn't frivolous. You just
didn't stop to consider that if Excel 2003 could open and recalc
20-year-old .xls files, maybe it could also open and run macros in
9-year-old .xla files. So who deserves most if we're passing out blame?
 
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