Playing with your WEI
In my Microsoft Certified Professional column this week, I talk about how you can dink around with your Windows Experience Index score to enable or disable the bonus functionality that comes with Vista (like Aero).
Without tromping too much on Bob Kelly's territory over at Realtime Windows Vista, I thought it interesting to share that the WEI score and the process of determining it doesn't make its way into Server 2008.
Nevertheless, if you're interested in seeing why your Vista computer scored what it did, check out my article over at MCP Mag. Here's a snippet:
I learned there's so much more to the internal conversation that goes on when the Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) is launched. You can analyze your resulting log file to reverse engineer out of the results why you were given the score you got. That log file is stored in...
...the location %systemroot%\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore and is titled with the date and time the WinSAT process is run.
[Snip]
It appears that system RAM must be at or above 1.5GB to eliminate a memory score limitation and that DirectX9 supportability on the part of the video card will force the graphics and 3D gaming score way down.
Read the full article at:
http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1772
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