Weird problem with Windows Experience Index

I happened to notice that the Windows Experience Index screen on my 1520 system is really messed up:



Note there's no section displaying information by CPU, RAM, HD, etc.

Has anyone encountered anything like this with their machines? Any idea as to how to fix it? I do realize that in the overall scheme of things it's no big deal, but I would like to have it work if possible. Or at least know what's wrong...

 

Yeah, same here! It would be great if someone came up with a solution.

 

From another board:

http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=26602

I'd recommend the Group Policy fix first, unless you are comfortable with the registry.

 

Thanks ZoinksS2k

 

Which way did you fix it? I'm somewhat curious if Dell inadvertently did this on certian builds when they automated it. This shouldn't happen on it's lonesome.

 

I ended up using Regedit, as I couldn't locate GPEdit.msc on my Vista Premium system. And I'm comfortable with Regedit.

Many thanks to ZoinksS2K. I had spent 25-30 minutes searching with Google trying to find this; I just never hit the right keywords to find a link like this.

By the way, I rebuilt my system from the Dell DVD, so it's nothing on Dell's builds unless they've slipstreamed it into the DVD. And it used to work; I wish I knew what zapped this into the registry.

Interestingly, my WEI went from 4.5 to 4.6, going from RAM being the limiting factor to the video card (8600 GT) for Desktop/Aero. RAM actually went from 4.5 to 4.8 - which is weird, since I went from 2x512Mb DIMMs to a 512Mb and a 2Gb DIMM. I guess it was really the extra RAM that helped, because I obviously I lost dual-channel.

 

Does it really mean anything anyway?

My desktop scores 5.9's all across the board so it's pointless, it's providing me with a 'Your computer is faster than this test can handle' response rather than a meaningful benchmark score.

You might as well just have some fun with it...