perflib error 1008, why is the only solution to disable them?

I get the following error anytime I run an NBF perfmon.
Now I have seen this error message all over the net and on the MS site and
the consistent solution is to disable the counter to stop the messages. What
if I want to see the counter? Where can I find into to actually fix it?

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Perflib
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1008
Date: 5/30/2005
Time: 1:39:10 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MYSERVER
Description:
The Open Procedure for service "Nbf" in DLL "C:\WINNT\system32\perfctrs.dll"
failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. Status
code returned is data DWORD 0.
Data:
0000: 02 00 00 00 ....


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