Perfnet Error? how to fix!

[YukonMaster]

I have an acer laptop 5100 series Specs are as follows

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL50 (1.6 GHz, 512 KB L2 Cache)
ATI radeon 100 express
120 GB HDD
1GB DDR2

This has been happening sice purchased in the event viewer it shows a perfnet error and the code for it is DWORD
Details
Product: Windows Operating System
Event ID: 2004
Source: PerfNet
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: PERFNET_UNABLE_OPEN_SERVER
Message: Unable to open the Server service. Server performance data will not be returned. The error code returned is in the first DWORD in the Data section.

Any ideas on how to fix this or if its a problem

[glc]

Explanation
A performance monitoring program tried to open the performance counters for the Server service. The Server service could not respond to the request. The Server service is not running or is transitioning between starting and stopping or vice versa.


User Action
To determine whether the Server service is running, at the command prompt, type Net Statistics
A list of running services is displayed. If the Server service is not listed, at the command prompt, type Net Start Server

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Is this a problem? I have no idea.