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  1. Posts : 630
       #51

    Yes, we can all agree, it was not a deluxe tool.
    But;
    It was free, it was universal, at the time every Windows 7 machine had it, and most people shopping for a system at their local store or else wise could easily compare scores to their current machines. First, thing I did when shopping my local Best Buy, would be to check the WEI. What is the harm in that? Early on, I had no clue whether to get an AMD or Intel machine. It simply served it's purpose.

    I am not defending it against better software, only it's usage.
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  2. Posts : 27,164
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #52

    Trust_No1 said:
    Yes, we can all agree, it was not a deluxe tool.
    But;
    It was free, it was universal, at the time every Windows 7 machine had it, and most people shopping for a system at their local store or else wise could easily compare scores to their current machines. First, thing I did when shopping my local Best Buy, would be to check the WEI. What is the harm in that? Early on, I had no clue whether to get an AMD or Intel machine. It simply served it's purpose.

    I am not defending it against better software, only it's usage.
    With Windows 7 when I added 4GB for a total of 8GB RAM I knew the score would improve, the same when I traded the HDD for a SSD. that's better hardware. But what did interest me was any improvements when I updated my Intel HD2000 integrated graphics driver, once it was 2 points better. The scores might not really mean any thing but they did show if something was improved quick and visually clean without too much other Gobeltygook.
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  3. Posts : 5,286
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #53

    The SIW (System Info for Windows) will tell you everything you need to know about your PC even all your license keys, temps, everything. Below, I got the lowest rating on my graphics probably because of driver issues with Win 10.

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  4. Posts : 27
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       #54

    there are lots of free programs that are better than wei. and imo using the wei to do my shopping isn't a good idea. 2 cpu could have a 1 point difference while one might be 2x faster in real world performance.
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  5. Posts : 19,516
    W11+W11 Developer Insider + Linux
       #55

    I don't think WEI is taking shape of windows in to account either, you can have a dirty infected system, noticeably slower than it should be and still get good rating. There used to be, long time ago some program that bench-marked performance of Office programs by loading lets say a large and complicated spreadsheet and doing calculations. Similar for Word etc. Now that's a practical benchmark. Same goes for some games where computer plays it for you while displaying and recording frame rates. That's real life benchmark, more useful than general ones.
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  6. Posts : 1,811
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       #56

    badrobot said:
    The SIW (System Info for Windows) will tell you everything you need to know about your PC even all your license keys, temps, everything. Below, I got the lowest rating on my graphics probably because of driver issues with Win 10.
    Have they reintroduced a free version of SIW?
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  7. Posts : 5,286
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #57

    lehnerus2000 said:
    Have they reintroduced a free version of SIW?
    I don't know about the free version. Mine is a paid version which I got on a promotion (50% off). But I know there are existing free version as portable apps. But those may be outdated ones.
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  8. Posts : 630
       #58

    LOL listening to some of these comments bad mouthing WEI, makes it sound like Microsoft can't write any good software at all, gee but here we are, on a Windows Ten forum. Again, it was free, it was universal, it wasn't great but decent, it serves it's intended purpose, I don't understand the hostility towards it. I liked it, I miss it, I wish it would return, my final thoughts and opinion, no more from me on this topic.
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  9. Lee
    Posts : 4,793
    OS X, Win 10
       #59

    Trust_No1 said:
    LOL listening to some of these comments bad mouthing WEI, makes it sound like Microsoft can't write any good software at all, gee but here we are, on a Windows Ten forum. Again, it was free, it was universal, it wasn't great but decent, it serves it's intended purpose, I don't understand the hostility towards it. I liked it, I miss it, I wish it would return, my final thoughts and opinion, no more from me on this topic.
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  10. Posts : 19,516
    W11+W11 Developer Insider + Linux
       #60

    I don't know if they would not want to or do not know how to write decent apps included in windows but there are better alternatives for all of them. I wish MS would release "naked" windows, nice clean system without their "free" applications and let me install what I need and want to. I say "free" under quotes because nothing is free there, cost of clean windows could be much lower than.
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