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    Windows Experience Index wrong

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jrjohnston, Jun 26, 2007.

  1. jrjohnston

    jrjohnston Notebook Enthusiast

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    After reformatting and installing Vista 64bit on my 9500, the windows experience index was showing it rated just a 1. Before the install it rated 4.6.

    The index kept giving me a New Hardware Detected and that I needed to rerun the experience index. Even after rerunning it, would still show a 1.

    I found this on another site:

    Have you had an error where Windows Experience Index in Vista won't refresh?

    Here is the fix I found with some help from a few forums.

    Go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore
    Delete all of the files
    Reboot (might not be necessary)
    Rerun the assesment
    This was tested on an HP Laptop with Vista x64 and a GeForce Go 7600 (Nvidia).
     
    jrjohnston, Jun 26, 2007
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  2. TomTom2007

    TomTom2007 Notebook Deity

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    haha funny thing just happened after I did what you suggested. I lost 0.1 point...
    used to be 3.3 and now 3.2.... lol
     
    TomTom2007, Jun 26, 2007
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  3. jrjohnston

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    I do not see a reason to try this unless you have the problem described.
     
    jrjohnston, Jun 26, 2007
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    well, this thing is really funny, 'cause my laptop is dv9207us, and it was 1, and after I installed a clean vista then it became 4.5 :D :D
     
    anjunab!tch, Jun 27, 2007
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  5. jrjohnston

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    after doing the procedure above, mine returned to the value i had before I reinstalled vista
     
    jrjohnston, Jun 27, 2007
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