[Dumb] Manually changing your Vista Performance Rating

[Rilex]

Don't like getting a 1 in your Vista Performance rating? May be 3 isn't even enough to boost your ego and let you forget how "bad" your 2 year old PC is. So hey, why not just change the Vista Performance Rating?

You'll probably have to run the Vista Performance Rating and Tools applet once (you should do this anyways after loading appropriate display drivers) to get this to work, perhaps not.

Anyways, once it is done and you're thorougly unsatisified with your score, lets change it (but make sure to close the Performance Rating and Tools, first)! Go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore and change the NTFS security settings so Administrators (or your user) have at least Modify rights, if not Full Control. Pick the latest .xml file in the folder and edit it in your favorite xml editor. The numbers should be pretty obvious, all within the <WinSPR> carrots. The "SystemScore" number can be any single-digit value up to 9 while it looks like the Sub Rating numbers (e.g. "MemoryScore", "CpuScore", etc.) can be 4 digits long (or rather, the applet will only display up to 4 digits, cutting off part of the last digit).

http://rilex.unroutable.net/ars/PRT.jpg

I think my PC is better than yours! /ego stroke

 

[Dahak]

Heh, neat trick.... its an uber computer from billion years from now 🙂
ms tool only goes to 5 iirc

 

[xtknight]

Can you hax0r the size of the hard disk so it gives you a really high score? Then I'd be impressed.

 

[thescreensavers]

umm now what did you achevie doing this vista has a built in proformance manager and automaticly ajusts for best proformace screweing with that just screws up the whole proformance thing. SORry but there is no point

 

[Rilex]

It is doubtful. That information is most likely pulled from a WMI query.

 

[Rilex]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
umm now what did you achevie doing this vista has a built in proformance manager and automaticly ajusts for best proformace screweing with that just screws up the whole proformance thing. SORry but there is no point

Notice in the subject line, "[Dumb]". However, it may get rid of those "blah is slowing down your computer" messages.

I don't know for a fact that changing these ratings in the XML file will actually change anything performance-wise within Vista. Most likely not as you cannot force the Aero Glass interface on a video card that doesn't support Pixel Shaders 2.0, for example.