Experience Index in Windows 8.1

This tip is for the duty that NERDS they missed the Windows Experience Index 8.1. This index was introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista and lasted until Windows 8, but do not know why, was “removed” no Windows 8.1.

This post will show that the Experience Index has not been completely removed from Windows 8.1, but now is not as easily observable as in previous versions of Windows.

Old enough to access the area “Performance Information and Tools”, within the Control Panel, and Windows showed a calculated processor score, memory, hard drive and video card in your computer. This index is cool, it measures the performance of these hardware and assigns a score to each and also to your computer as a whole.

Microsoft's idea was to make the Experience Index an indicator to be used by software development industry, in other words, a company sell software indicating that a computer should have at least one score 3 Experience Index in order to run the program properly.

This greatly facilitate the purchase of any software (systems, games, programs etc.), because instead of the boxes indicate the minimum requirements processor, memory, disk space and graphics processing power, sufficient to indicate that such Experience Index.

Unfortunately, this proposal was not adopted by the market, who preferred to continue making the minimum requirements of each hardware item and, at the end, the Experience Index ended up falling into disuse. Probably why it has been “removed” do Windows 8.1.

But for those who like to show that your computer is better than your friend, this index still remains very good at it! ;)

Show Experience Index in Windows 8.1

Briefly, you must run a command for Windows 8.1 calculate the Experience Index and then run another command to display the result. Below I show step by step how to do it all.

1- Close all programs that are running.
This is important not to negatively influence the calculation of the index.

2- Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator.

Pressure as teclas “Windows + The“, reselect the option All Locations (1) and, in the search bar, type PowerShell.

Click on it with the right mouse button and select the option Run as administrator (2).

3-Dentro do Windows PowerShell, type the following command:

WINSAT FORMAL

Now wait for the end of execution. Depending on your computer this process may take a while. Have patience…

When this command finishes it will not display the Experience Index that both want. For this we must run another command that explain below:

4- Viewing Experience Index.

Even within Windows PowerShell, execute command or pull down:

GET-WMIOBJECT WIN32_WINSAT | FORMAT-TABLE CPUSCORE, D3DSCORE, DISK SCORE, GRAPHICSSCORE, MEMORYSCORE, WINSPRLEVEL -autosize

Say: Copy this line here blog and paste within PowerShell as shown in the picture below:

Click the right mouse button on Windows PowerShell icon, located in the upper left corner of the window, then go to Edit and then Necklace. After typing or put the command line, pressure tecla ENTER to perform.

After that command the results of the Windows Experience Index will be displayed as in the example below:

The column names are already self-explanatory, I explain a little about each one below:

• CPUSCORE: score as your computer's processor;
• D3DSCORE: score measured with respect to the algorithms of DirectX, the API that handles tasks related to games;
• DISK SCORE: score far as your hard drive or SSD;
• GRAPHICSSCORE: score measure of your video card;
• MEMORYSCORE: score measuring their memory;
• WINSPRLEVEL: overall score of your computer, which is always the lowest value obtained in the other scores.

Conclusion

It's not as difficult to verify the Experience Index of your Windows computer 8.1 installed, but may no longer be an information as useful today and, hence, has been removed from the area“Performance Information and Tools”.

Wrong I think the overall score only consider the lowest rate of the measured items. That my case, the GraphicsScore is the lowest score and end up having an index of 5.3 notebook even having an excellent index 7,85 no SDD. Depending on the use of the notebook does not need a high score on the video card.

But that's all just a daydream and it is important that now you know how to get the Experience Index on your Windows 8.1. Hope you enjoyed the tip.