How to rebuild performance counters on Windows Vista/Server2008/7/Server2008R2

Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2

When some or all your counters show up as numbers

or

When your counters do not show up

or
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Perflib
Event ID: 1008 and others

In Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, if you wanted to rebuild the base O.S. performance counters you had to go thru:
300956 How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values
https://support.microsoft.com/?id=300956

or use a tool such as exctrlst.exe to try disabling to see what counter had issues.
Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tool : Extensible Performance Counter List (exctrlst.exe)
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7ff99683-b7ec-4da6-92ab-793193604ba4

In Windows Vista/Server 2008 and higher, a very easy command to get your base O.S. performance counters working:

Click on Start, CMD (evelated as an Administrator)
Type "C: " without the quotation marks and Enter.
Type "CD\windows\system32" without the quotation marks and Enter.
Type "LodCtr.exe /S:Backup_Original.INI" without the quotation marks and Enter.
Note: This let's you backup the performance counters before we rebuild.
Type "LodCtr.exe /R:PerfStringBackup.INI" without the quotation marks and Enter.
Open up Perfmon and check to see if your counters are showing up properly.

P.S.  Other commands that you can use with LODCTR.exe

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C:\>lodctr.exe /?

LODCTR
    Updates registry values related to performance counters.

Usage:
    LODCTR <INI-FileName>
        INI-FileName is the name of the initialization file that contains
            the counter name definitions and explain text for an extensible
            counter DLL.

    LODCTR /S:<Backup-FileName>
        save the current perf registry strings and info to <Backup-FileName>

    LODCTR /R:<Backup-FileName>
        restore the perf registry strings and info using <Backup-FileName>

    LODCTR /R
        rebuild the perf registry strings and info from scratch based on the cur
rent
            registry settings and backup INI files.

    LODCTR /T:<Service-Name>
        set the performance counter service as trusted.

    LODCTR /E:<Service-Name>
        enable the performance counter service.

    LODCTR /D:<Service-Name>
        disable the performance counter service.

    LODCTR /Q

    LODCTR /Q:<Service-Name>
        query the performance counter service information, either query all or s
pecified one.

    LODCTR /M:<Counter-Manifest>
        install Windows Vista performance counter provider definition XML file
            to system repository.

Note: any arguments with spaces in the names must be enclosed within
Double Quotation marks.
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