title: Performance counter permissions: admin not required?
body: <p>Can someone clarify for me exactly what permissions are required to read from and write to performance counters? I'm not seeing that I need any kind of special permissions to read/write performance counters and that's contrary to most resources I've found.</p>
  
  <p>A training that I took, as well as most resources on the web, indicate that managing performance counters (creating, deleting) requires admin permissions, and reading/writing requires admin or membership in the local Performance Monitor Users group. I've verified the first, but as for reading/writing, I don't seem to have any problems doing this on my Win8.1 machine as a non-admin user. I can read perf counters using perfmon, PowerShell and the .NET API and write to custom perf counters using the .NET API, all as a non-admin.</p>
  
  <p>Has this changed across OS versions? Or perhaps something in my corporate domain policy allows for it?</p>