performance counters

Hi there, i'm tring to find the processor usage information, i.e. the CPU usage number u c in the task manager. I have the following code. i've used a timer control, so it can give me different values.
i'm a fairly new programmer, detailed answers will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Private Sub tmrDebug_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles tmrDebug.Tick

Dim myPerformanceCounter1 As New PerformanceCounter("Processor", "% Processor Time", "_Total")
Dim myCounterSample1 As New CounterSample(10&, 20&, 30&, 40&, 50&, 60&, PerformanceCounterType.AverageCount64)

Console.WriteLine("RawValue = " & myCounterSample1.RawValue)

myCounterSample1 = myPerformanceCounter1.NextSample()

Console.WriteLine("RawValue = " & myCounterSample1.RawValue)

End Sub

are you wanting something that runs in the background contantly and monitors ALL of the computer's cpu usage? I think that may be in the processThread class. I'll see what I can find. in the meatime, lookup processThread in the msdn with your visual basic

yeah, you could say that, some kinda program that only finds the processor usage information, using performance counters. I wasnt all 2 sure wat i was doing, the whole code might be wrong. but i have 2 use performance counters, so i cant use processthread. Thanks.