<div class="content"><p>The _STRING_BUFFER_HEADER structure is used at the beginning
of a counter string header block that is returned when retrieving the names or
description strings of <a href="da82a046-4e10-46ab-8da9-3d24bb48a2b2#gt_35645a67-9e0b-4c05-b2d9-3b2b25f2beac" data-linktype="relative-path">performance
counters</a>. For more information, see Figure 2 in section <a href="c27e44fc-f8f5-4a9d-bbc5-acc241c3b9cb" data-linktype="relative-path">3.1.4.1.2</a>.</p><dl>
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<div><pre> typedef struct _STRING_BUFFER_HEADER {
   DWORD dwSize;
   DWORD dwCounters;
 } PERF_STRING_BUFFER_HEADER,
  *PPERF_STRING_BUFFER_HEADER;
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</dd></dl><p><b>dwSize:</b>  The total size, in bytes, of the
data that is returned.</p><p><b>dwCounters:</b>  The total number of counters
in the <a href="da82a046-4e10-46ab-8da9-3d24bb48a2b2#gt_5ad9937c-a24e-4274-92c8-50ff5f97bf19" data-linktype="relative-path">counterset</a>.</p></div>