WINS Counters Disappear from Performance Monitor

CAUSE

This problem is caused by stopping, and later restarting the WINS service. The reason the problem occurs is because the WINS counter library routine that initializes, and binds the counters to the WINS Name Server is only called once. Because the initialization/bind routine is only called once, if the service is later stopped and restarted the Performance Monitor counters originally bound are no longer valid resulting in the counters disappearing.