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Two different Windows Ex. Rating on exact same computer...

Discussion in 'HP' started by LoneRonin, Mar 17, 2012.

LoneRonin Notebook Enthusiast

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I've got two of the E-450 CPU DM1's. One has a clean install with latest graphic drivers while the other is stock with all the bloatware.
Stock one shows Windows Aero Graphics rating at 4.6 while the clean install is 4.5. I'm probably just nitpicking, but I want to know why its rated higher with the bloatware?
I went through the program list and there doesn't seem to be anything graphics related other than the AMD Control Center program which I have on the clean install as well. In fact after booting up the clean install windows installed the graphics driver itself...

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hieubui Notebook Enthusiast

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WEI is nonsense
Mine with bloatware showed 7.8 for RAM (6GB 1333Mhz) LOL
I did a fresh installation and now it's 7.4

hieubui, Mar 18, 2012

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if you go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore, you can find all the reports of each test and check for discrepancies. The XML files aren't formatted to be easily read though, unfortunately.

scy1192, Mar 18, 2012

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