PerformanceCounter.NextValue hangs on some machines

Question

I don\'t know why, but many computers hangs on following operation:

void Init()
{
    net1 = new List();
    net2 = new List

        

Answer 1

Removing printer references helped eliminate a hang on the initial

  new PerformanceCounter("Processor", "% Processor Time", "_Total").  

Now we get a fresh error message instead of hang so can trace it. From:

Answer about printer drivers

We had two similar dell laptops (one newer), both with Windows 8, MVSV 2013, and IIS Express 8. One would hang, one would not.