Vista - Windows Experience Index is busted

Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
presented me with.

My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my score
has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the score under
'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making it retest, please
help.

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Lord Takyon wrote:
> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
> presented me with.
>
> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my
> score has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the
> score under 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making
> it retest, please help.

Do you not have an 'Update My Score' on the right-hand side of the Windows
Experience Index dialogue?

"Neil Harley" <nomail@home> wrote in message
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> Lord Takyon wrote:
>> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
>> presented me with.
>>
>> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my
>> score has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the
>> score under 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making
>> it retest, please help.
>
> Do you not have an 'Update My Score' on the right-hand side of the Windows
> Experience Index dialogue?


Mine states 'Rating 2.9 Windows Experience Index:Unrated' clicking the link
on the unrated text takes me to a new window stating 'Rate and improve you
computers performance' and has what looks like a link saying 'Learn how you
can improve your computers performance', but this cannot be clicked.

Please be gentle if I have missed something obvious, this OS is very new to
me.

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Lord Takyon wrote:
> "Neil Harley" <nomail@home> wrote in message
> news:14CBAF7D-9C78-4D86-AE47-12BD341CA9D4@microsoft.com...
>> Lord Takyon wrote:
>>> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
>>> presented me with.
>>>
>>> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet
>>> my score has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the
>>> score under 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making
>>> it retest, please help.
>>
>> Do you not have an 'Update My Score' on the right-hand side of the
>> Windows Experience Index dialogue?
>
>
> Mine states 'Rating 2.9 Windows Experience Index:Unrated' clicking
> the link on the unrated text takes me to a new window stating 'Rate
> and improve you computers performance' and has what looks like a link
> saying 'Learn how you can improve your computers performance', but
> this cannot be clicked.
> Please be gentle if I have missed something obvious, this OS is very
> new to me.

In the dialogue which has 'Learn how you can improve your computers
performance' it should show your score. Under that there is an 'Update My
Score' link which will run the test again.

hth

In article <uA7Y5sNhHHA.4600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Lord Takyon says...
> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
> presented me with.
>
> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my score
> has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the score under
> 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making it retest, please
> help.
>
It'll still go by the slowest thing.


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"Lord Takyon" <takyon@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Neil Harley" <nomail@home> wrote in message
> news:14CBAF7D-9C78-4D86-AE47-12BD341CA9D4@microsoft.com...
>> Lord Takyon wrote:
>>> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
>>> presented me with.
>>>
>>> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my
>>> score has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the
>>> score under 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making
>>> it retest, please help.
>>
>> Do you not have an 'Update My Score' on the right-hand side of the
>> Windows Experience Index dialogue?
>
>
> Mine states 'Rating 2.9 Windows Experience Index:Unrated' clicking the
> link on the unrated text takes me to a new window stating 'Rate and
> improve you computers performance' and has what looks like a link saying
> 'Learn how you can improve your computers performance', but this cannot be
> clicked.
>
> Please be gentle if I have missed something obvious, this OS is very new
> to me.
>
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Sorry, forgot to mention that under the non-clickable link is just empty, no
information whatsoever. A friend has tweaked the machine a little, just
trimming unneeded services, nothing that cannot be reversed. Is there a
specific service that should be running? When I first installed Vista it
generated the score, but no more and it still reads my RAM at being the old
level. Has not updated at all.

Thank you for your valued assistance.

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"Neil Harley" <nomail@home> wrote in message
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> Lord Takyon wrote:
>> "Neil Harley" <nomail@home> wrote in message
>> news:14CBAF7D-9C78-4D86-AE47-12BD341CA9D4@microsoft.com...
>>> Lord Takyon wrote:
>>>> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
>>>> presented me with.
>>>>
>>>> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet
>>>> my score has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the
>>>> score under 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making
>>>> it retest, please help.
>>>
>>> Do you not have an 'Update My Score' on the right-hand side of the
>>> Windows Experience Index dialogue?
>>
>>
>> Mine states 'Rating 2.9 Windows Experience Index:Unrated' clicking
>> the link on the unrated text takes me to a new window stating 'Rate
>> and improve you computers performance' and has what looks like a link
>> saying 'Learn how you can improve your computers performance', but
>> this cannot be clicked.
>> Please be gentle if I have missed something obvious, this OS is very
>> new to me.
>
> In the dialogue which has 'Learn how you can improve your computers
> performance' it should show your score. Under that there is an 'Update My
> Score' link which will run the test again.
>
> hth
>
>


It is just blank.

I managed to get rid of the unrated bit, I ran 'winsat' from command prompt
with the 'formal' attached and it ran fine. Score and amount of RAM is the
same, just no longer says unrated, so it is still incorrect.

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"Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In article <uA7Y5sNhHHA.4600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Lord Takyon says...
>> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
>> presented me with.
>>
>> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my
>> score
>> has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the score under
>> 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making it retest,
>> please
>> help.
>>
> It'll still go by the slowest thing.
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
> Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
> until you hear them speak.........


Hence the RAM and video card upgrades.

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If you click on the system icon in control panel you see your system rating.
Then there is a link called Windows Experience Index. If you click on that
you come to the Rate and improve your computer performance window.
Underneath all the details of you hardware scores you should see a little
shield with Update my score next to it. Clicking this will update the store.

My Graphics card rates at 5.9 when it relates to desktop performance with
Aero. However, the graphics card is useless for 3D business and gaming so it
gets a score of 3.3. Because the base score that you see displayed relates
to the weakest link in the chain, in my case 3.3, this is the overall score
for your system. Personally the scoring system is about as useful as a boat
with a hole in the bottom. Psychologically it is a sales tool, the lower
your rating the more likely you are to go out and spend your hard earned
cash on new hardware (and as software will soon be rated the same too, more
software.) While I hate to see the big PC and Software manufacturers go
bankrupt through lack of sales, all the consumer has to remember is one
short saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'

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"Lord Takyon" <takyon@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.20958b0232de13a998a5c2@news.karoo.co.uk...
>> In article <uA7Y5sNhHHA.4600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Lord Takyon says...
>>> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
>>> presented me with.
>>>
>>> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my
>>> score
>>> has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the score under
>>> 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making it retest,
>>> please
>>> help.
>>>
>> It'll still go by the slowest thing.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Conor
>>
>> Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
>> until you hear them speak.........
>
>
> Hence the RAM and video card upgrades.
>
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"John Barnett MVP" <freelanceit@mvps.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> If you click on the system icon in control panel you see your system
> rating. Then there is a link called Windows Experience Index. If you click
> on that you come to the Rate and improve your computer performance window.
> Underneath all the details of you hardware scores you should see a little
> shield with Update my score next to it. Clicking this will update the
> store.
>
> My Graphics card rates at 5.9 when it relates to desktop performance with
> Aero. However, the graphics card is useless for 3D business and gaming so
> it gets a score of 3.3. Because the base score that you see displayed
> relates to the weakest link in the chain, in my case 3.3, this is the
> overall score for your system. Personally the scoring system is about as
> useful as a boat with a hole in the bottom. Psychologically it is a sales
> tool, the lower your rating the more likely you are to go out and spend
> your hard earned cash on new hardware (and as software will soon be rated
> the same too, more software.) While I hate to see the big PC and Software
> manufacturers go bankrupt through lack of sales, all the consumer has to
> remember is one short saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'
>
> --
> John Barnett MVP
> Associate Expert
> Windows - Shell/User
>
> Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
> Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org
>
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> "Lord Takyon" <takyon@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> "Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.20958b0232de13a998a5c2@news.karoo.co.uk...
>>> In article <uA7Y5sNhHHA.4600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Lord Takyon says...
>>>> Hi all, really enjoying Vista, overcome all the small annoyances it
>>>> presented me with.
>>>>
>>>> My question is that I have added RAM and upgraded my vid card, yet my
>>>> score
>>>> has not changed. Window sees and uses the new RAM, yet the score under
>>>> 'System' has not changed and I can find no way of making it retest,
>>>> please
>>>> help.
>>>>
>>> It'll still go by the slowest thing.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Conor
>>>
>>> Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
>>> until you hear them speak.........
>>
>>
>> Hence the RAM and video card upgrades.
>>
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>


LOL I know how to do it, I am asking for help because half the info is
missing and the options to update my score are not there. Just out of
interest, and I know I am not supposed to do this, I installed my Vista onto
a new partition on my laptop, it did the rating all fine, and the missing
options were available. However after a reboot the options are gone, no
updates of any kind were applied and no divers were changed either.

Strange eh?

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