This issue has surfaced in the newsgroups a few times and worth noting here.

Issue: Non-administrator user receives the following error when attempting to access the Web Console.

Event Id: 10
Source: Web Console
Description:
Create Counters Failed.
Access to the registry key ‘Global’ is denied.

Workaround:Add the affected user to the local Users and Performance Monitor Users group on the server hosting the web console

Note: Jonathan Hambrook pinged me to mention he had documented the erorr in deail, and indeed it is nicely done. Check out Jonathan’s post on this error HERE.