Hack vista experience number

Your Windows Vista has elegant personalized themes and beautiful background wallpaper, and you have tweaked and twisted various Vista parameters and used various tips and tricks for system to perform faster and better, despite on low end computer. But alas, you open up control panel to view system information and Windows Experience Index, and it’s an embarrassing low base score and subscore. This trick will change all this Vista system rating to ensure that you have a perfect Vista system.



1) Open an Explorer Window and navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore and look for the latest XML file [look in the name for dates]
2) Take Ownership of the file first. Use this tutorial from Brink: Take Ownership of file
3) After taking full ownership, open the XML with WordPad. ONLY OPEN WITH WORDPAD. It will look messy if you open it with NotePad.
4) Look for the lines that says:
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2) Then change the numbers between the < > with anything you like then save it. Open up Control Panel\Performance Information and Tools and voila! Your WEI scores have changed! There is a limit for the scores though. 9.9 .
That's It!

You make your computer a SUPER COMPUTER