for Vista users: Windows Performance Index Tweak

[rohitsharman]

Hi folks, We all know about new feature "Windows Experience or Performance Index" in Windows Vista. It's a new feature which automatically calculates your system performance index based on the hardware you have. It can be between 0.1 to 9.9

Windows Performance Index is shown in System Properties which can be accessed by right-clicking on My Computer icon on Desktop and select Properties or from Control Panel.

With Vista's Windows Experience Index it can be handy to manually change the score so you can get extra features that apply to PC's with a higher score.



Using this trick, you can increase that Index upto 9.9


NOTE: It will, of course not affect/improve the actual performance of your system. Take a prior backup of that file before editing it.


How to:

1. Type following in Startmenu Searchbox / Run / Explorer Addressbar:

%windir%\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore

And Press <Enter>.

2. You’ll one or more .xml files in the folder. Sort them by Date Created or look at their name. The file name will be in following format:

2007-11-08 22.23.17.858 Assessment (Initial).WinSAT.xml

Where "2007-11-08 22.23.17.858" might differ from machine to machine and Windows Installation date/time.

3. Open the latest file in "Wordpad" and goto line having <WinSPR>. It’ll be approx. 12th line and will look like following:

<WinSPR>
<SystemScore>1</SystemScore>
<MemoryScore>4</MemoryScore>
<CpuScore>3.4</CpuScore>
<CPUSubAggScore>2.9</CPUSubAggScore>
<VideoEncodeScore>3.9</VideoEncodeScore>
<GraphicsScore>1</GraphicsScore>
<GamingScore>1</GamingScore>
<DiskScore>4.2</DiskScore>

4. Now you can edit the numbers between > & < and can increase them upto 9.9 as following:

<WinSPR>
<SystemScore>9.9</SystemScore>
<MemoryScore>9.9</MemoryScore>
<CpuScore>9.9</CpuScore>
<CPUSubAggScore>9.9</CPUSubAggScore>
<VideoEncodeScore>9.9</VideoEncodeScore>
<GraphicsScore>9.9</GraphicsScore>
<GamingScore>9.9</GamingScore>
<DiskScore>9.9</DiskScore>

5. Thats it. Save the file and check the Index again in System Properties. It'll 9.9 now.



Microsoft will allow a higher score than 5.9 in the future when the relative performance of future computers far exceed a score of 5.9

[mariner_heart]

i have a question for u Rohit.
my pc has intel 915gm which has 192 mb graphic memory
1gb ram
1.7 GHz intel centrino

as intel has stopped shipping this chipset,there are no WDDM drivers available for it.
so no aeroglass for it!

as the beta versions of vista used to have a perfectly working aeroglass., is there any way i can force glass effect by any tweak?

(and what more, Microsoft no more gives the vista beta for download)

thanks

[zacwhite15]

i have a question for u Rohit.
my pc has intel 915gm which has 192 mb graphic memory
1gb ram
1.7 GHz intel centrino

as intel has stopped shipping this chipset,there are no WDDM drivers available for it.
so no aeroglass for it!

as the beta versions of vista used to have a perfectly working aeroglass., is there any way i can force glass effect by any tweak?

(and what more, Microsoft no more gives the vista beta for download)

thanks

hey dude you should be able to pull the driver out of one of the beta builds. and that should work fine.

[rohitsharman]

i have a question for u Rohit.
my pc has intel 915gm which has 192 mb graphic memory
1gb ram
1.7 GHz intel centrino

as intel has stopped shipping this chipset,there are no WDDM drivers available for it.
so no aeroglass for it!

as the beta versions of vista used to have a perfectly working aeroglass., is there any way i can force glass effect by any tweak?

(and what more, Microsoft no more gives the vista beta for download)

thanks

Hey mate, try this:

1. Click on the start button and key in regedit and hit Enter.
2. Navigate through, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows and DWM.
3. Set Composition to 1 and CompositionPolicy to 2.
4. Restart the DWM by restarting the Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager service. This can be done in services.msc or by typing net stop uxsms and net start uxsms at command prompt.

Once the service restarts you will have glass !!!

by beta, you mean Longhorn ? I don't think Microsoft is nice enough to offer us free beta version, when their Vista(paid version) is already on a boom in market:D

[rohitsharman]

hey dude you should be able to pull the driver out of one of the beta builds. and that should work fine.

Yeah mate, you are right, this can work.

[mariner_heart]

Hey mate, try this:

1. Click on the start button and key in regedit and hit Enter.
2. Navigate through, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows and DWM.
3. Set Composition to 1 and CompositionPolicy to 2.
4. Restart the DWM by restarting the Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager service. This can be done in services.msc or by typing net stop uxsms and net start uxsms at command prompt.

Once the service restarts you will have glass !!!

by beta, you mean Longhorn ? I don't think Microsoft is nice enough to offer us free beta version, when their Vista(paid version) is already on a boom in market:D

tried it also.
no luck mate!
i feel we can't do it.

i appreciate ur willingness to help friends.

[rohitsharman]

You are always welcome, buddy. Did you try zacwhite15's way ?

[mariner_heart]

You are always welcome, buddy. Did you try zacwhite15's way ?

not really because:-
1. i no longer have vista beta.
2. even if i had, i'm too dumb to do that.

[rohitsharman]

So, in the nutshell, you need those WDDM drivers, right ?

[mariner_heart]

yes exactly....but they r not available from intel.
http://www.petitiononline.com/intel915/petition.html