Low windows experience index hard drive

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 7. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Windows 7 is more or less like windows vista and many feature of vista has been extended to windows 7 like windows experience index to assess your hardware and system component.

Even one of best windows 7 Aero glass effect is enabled only if your WEI score is more then 3. Many users have reported that after upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7 their Hard Drive score is drastically lowered then they had on windows vista.

Locate your Primary Disk Drive and right click select Properties. Thanks for this tip. It changed my Windows 7 score for my brand new hard drive from a somewhat worrying 2.

I originally had 5. The book is available now on Amazon. Site menu: Home About Books Mail. I'm one of today's best-selling computer book writers, with more than 15 million books in print. Windows 11 For Dummies on sale now! Search for:. Why does my hard drive drag down my Windows Experience Index score? Right-click Computer, and choose Properties. So, what do you do? Log in or Sign up.

Opteron , Dec 9, Priest-King , Apr 24, I must disagree. Based on those scores it looks to me like Windows Experience score is a pretty good basic benchmark for general Windows use. Mechanical HDD is by far the weakest performing part on modern computers and the scores should be dispersed through the 0.