Windows 10: Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Windows 10

How to: Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Windows 10

How to Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Windows 10


The Windows Experience Index (WEI) uses Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) to measure the capability of your PC's hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called a base score. A higher base score generally means that your PC will perform better and faster than a PC with a lower base score, especially when performing more advanced and resource-intensive tasks.

WEI includes a subscore of five key areas of a PC's hardware: desktop graphics, 3D gaming graphics, system memory (RAM) throughput, sequential read throughput of the primary hard disk, and processor (CPU) processing speed and ability. Desktop graphics assessments are focused on the ways a window on the desktop displays and moves. Gaming graphics assessments are focused on the 3D capability of the computer.

The base score is equal to the lowest of the subscores and is not an average of the subscores. The subscores can help show you what area is performing the lowest on your system if you are looking to upgrade your hardware.

WEI reports the score of key system components on a scale of 1.0 to 9.9.

This tutorial will show you how to get the Windows Experience Index (WEI) score in Windows 10 to help measure the capability of your PC without 3rd party programs.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Update Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Command Prompt
• Option Two: To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Games Explorer Folder
• Option Three: To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in System Diagnostics Report
• Option Four: To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in WinSAT.xml File
• Option Five: To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in PowerShell

OPTION ONE [/i] To Update Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Command Prompt
1. Open an elevated command prompt.

2. Type the command below into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow winsat formal




3. When WinSAT has finished assessing your PC, you can view the WEI score using Option Two, Option Four, or Option Five below. (see screenshot below)








OPTION TWO [/i] To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Games Explorer Folder

*note This option is no longer available starting with Windows 10 version 1803.
1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type shell:games into Run, and click/tap on OK to open the Games Explorer folder

2. You will now see the WEI base score. (see screenshot below)

*note If you do not have a score or want a more current score, then use Option One above to update the WEI score.









OPTION THREE [/i] To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in System Diagnostics Report
1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type perfmon into Run, and click/tap on OK to open Performance Monitor.

2. Expand open Reports, System, and System Diagnostics in the left pane of Performance Monitor. (see screenshot below)

3. Under System Diagnostics, click/tap on a report that was created (collected) on the date and time you want to view. (see screenshot below)

*note If you do not have a system diagnostics report available or want a more current report, then you can generate a new system diagnostics report.

4. In the report, click/tap on Hardware Configuration to expand it open , click/tap on Desktop Rating to expand it open, expand open Query, and expand open Returned Objects. (see screenshot below)









OPTION FOUR [/i] To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in WinSAT.xml File
1. Open File Explorer (Win+E).

2. Copy and paste the path below into the address bar of File Explorer, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow %windir%\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore




3. Open the Formal.Assessment (Recent).WinSAT.xml file with the most recent date. (see screenshot below)

*note If you do not have a Formal.Assessment (Recent).WinSAT.xml file or want a more current report, then use Option One above to update the WEI score.



4. Look for the part between the <WinSPR> tags in the .xml file to see what your PC's WEI subscores and base score are. SystemScore will be the base score. (see screenshot below)








OPTION FIVE [/i] To See Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in PowerShell
1. Open PowerShell.

2. Type the command below into PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

*Arrow Get-CimInstance Win32_WinSat

*note The WinSPRLevel is the WEI score. You can use Option One above to update the WEI score.





That's it,
Shawn


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• How to Generate System Diagnostics Report in Windows 10
• How to Generate System Performance Report in Windows 10

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windows 10 System Performance Rating

Give this a try:

https://winaero.com/blog/windows-experience-ind...

Chris PC Win Experience Index is another free software out there to get Windows Experience Index in Windows 10. The tool rates your key components of your PC on a scale of 1.1 to 9.9 and allows you share WEI score with others by exporting the ratings to text
file.

http://www.intowindows.com/windows-experience-i...

 

windows rating

How to Get the Windows Experience Index Score in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

 

LOL, what a coincidence.

*Thumbs

 

I'm not quite satisfied with mine.

 

Either was I, but I don't trust those results much anyhow Cliff. *Smile