For Vista users: Windows Performance Index Tweak
Hi all...... 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
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
It’ll be approx. 12th line and will look like following:
4. Now you can edit the numbers between > & <>
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
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