Hike Your Vista & 7 Performance Rating
The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista and Seven. While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems.

Start > ControlPanel > System and Maintenance > Performance Information and Tools or if you use the Classic Control Panel,double click on Performance Information and Tools.
- Open up Windows Explorer and browse to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore.
- Right-click on the most recently created XML file there and click on Properties.
- Click on the Security tab and then on the Edit button.
- Click on Add and enter the username that you log in using.
- Click OK.Select the entered ID and check the checkbox for Full Control. Click OK.
- Click on Yes for any confirmation windows that may pop up. Finally, click OK.
- Open Wordpad from Start > All Programs > Accessories > Wordpad.
- Click on File > Open and browse to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore. Select All files as the type of file using the dropdown menu and select the XML file. Click OK
- Under the <WinSPR> section, make changes to the scores given. These are the changes we made to strike the totally extraordinary score.
<WinSPR>
<SystemScore>9.9</SystemScore>
<MemoryScore>9.9</MemoryScore>
<CpuScore>9.9</CpuScore>
<CPUSubAggScore>9.9</CPUSubAggScore>
<VideoEncodeScore>9.9</VideoEncodeSc
ore>
<GraphicsScore>9.9</GraphicsScore>
<GamingScore>9.9</GamingScore>
<DiskScore>9.9</DiskScore>
</WinSPR>
10. Save the file and restart Performance Information and Tools in the Control Panel
Happy Fooling Vista and 7 :)