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The Windows Experience Index - A Necessary Evil? From Vista to Windows 7

Of all the things in Vista that I don’t particularly understand – like the UAC or the lack of firewall customization Hp Pavilion Dv9000 Battery, one stands higher than the rest – and that is the Windows Experience Index. There’s a few things that give it a weird place in your computer’s arsenal of information, namely the fact that the numbers scale isn’t out of ten, and the fact that it’s completely useless.

In theory, the experience index provides a great service. The idea behind it is to give your computer a standardized score so that it can be compared against test computers for running your programs and games. With a click of a button and a small amount of time, Vista takes your computer and analyzes it. Furthermore, it tells you what’s keeping you from achieving greatness.

However, in practice, the system is an exercise in pseudo-futility. First, on the rare occasions that it does work, you better make sure that all your hardware has been properly installed and the drivers work correctly. Secondly, running the analyzer caused my computer to crash a few times as well – compounding my frustration.

Finally, even when everything worked well, the experience index served no practical purpose aside from complaining about my amount of RAM. Also, games that were running just fine before, suddenly had messages popping up that now also complained about the RAM that my computer had. Overall Ibm Thinkpad X41 Battery, I was so frustrated by it that I just decided to ignore it in any future brushes with Vista.

Now, of course, some have experienced exactly the opposite Dell Inspiron E1705 Battery, finding it not only helpful, but necessary when working with people who aren’t very well-informed about how to upgrade computer components. However, I argue that this system is not the way that can be most beneficial to those that need computer upgrading assistance.

If I had to give Microsoft a piece of advice for Windows 7, it would be to make the experience index either a non-existent proposition or to give it an adjustable slider like the UAC.

Furthermore, in renovating the index experience, it would be essential to give users deeper information about problem areas in their computer – don’t reduce my score by a whole point because you can’t detect the speed of my CD/DVD drive (the way things are going, they’ll soon be obsolete anyway). The most important part of the index experience is to give out information – people will buy recommended products, but if you’re not giving them a choice, it’s no different than coercion with someone who doesn’t know what they are doing.

To put things into perspective, there are more useful products available as Internet web applications than the entire index experience combined. If I were you, it’d be much better to take advantage of these programs rather than to try and use the little resources that Windows attempts to give you.