Hack/Alter Windows Vista Base Score

Submitted by Srikanth on Sunday, 5 October 200816 Comments

If you are a Windows Vista user then you are very likely to be familiar with the Base Score.This score is calculated based on the computer’s hardware and software configuration.This score act’s as a rating to your PC.If you have a too low base score then don’t worry.Hacking Windows Vista’s so called Base Score is very easy.It is possible to hack this score within no time.Here are the snapshots of my own system.Actually my system’s base score is 3.7.But I have brought it up to 9.5 with this small hack.Can you beleive this!!

Here is a step-by-step instruction to hack Vista Base score

1. Navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore

2. You should see a .xml file with Assessment (Formal).WinSAT as filename

3. Right-click it and select open with ‘Wordpad’ (Not notepad!)

4. On line 12, you should see something like the following:
<SystemScore>9.5</SystemScore>
<MemoryScore>9.5</MemoryScore>
<CpuScore>9.5</CpuScore>
<CPUSubAggScore>9.5</CPUSubAggScore>
<VideoEncodeScore>5.5</VideoEncodeScore>
<GraphicsScore>9.5</GraphicsScore>
<GamingScore>9.5</GamingScore>
<DiskScore>9.5</DiskScore>

5. You can enter any number in the place where I have written 9.5.But the number should be less than 10.

6. Once you have entered the number of your choice save the file and close it.

7. That’s it.You have successfully altered your Windows Vista base score.No restart is required.

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16 Comments »

hackerKid said:

hey there,
well i tried that, but its working outs…so i think you should update it or something…but i really like the work done, highly appreciated..

- 21 December 2008 at 3:35 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ hackerKid

You might have edited the file

Assessment (Initial).WinSAT file

But u have to edit

Assessment (Formal).WinSAT

It perfectly works…no problem at all

- 21 December 2008 at 8:15 pm

moe said:

heyy..wen i tried to save wath i edited..they told me acess denied ..how can i fix it ?

- 30 December 2008 at 2:41 am

Srikanth (author) said:

@ moe

This happens because you do not have the permissions to edit the file.For this you need to take ownership of the file.For a detailed instruction on taking ownership

search in goole “take ownership in vista”

If you find problem in searching I’ll assist you…

after taking ownership retry the whole procedure it’ll work…

- 30 December 2008 at 7:39 pm

moe said:

thx it worked very well

- 31 December 2008 at 12:47 am

Slim0123 said:

I edited the file as mentioned in the post but neither it worked on Windows Vista Ultimate 6.0 build 6001 nor on Windows 7……

all I got was that “Windows Experience Index: Unrated”

- 3 January 2009 at 12:14 am

Srikanth (author) said:

@ Slim0123

It should work.Analyze the post and previous comments and see where u hav gone wrong

- 3 January 2009 at 3:10 am

Slim0123 said:

I tried again but this time instead of different values, I gave 9.5 to each, only then it worked, when I tried to give some realistic values like 6.5, 7.9, etc, it just render my computer unrated and does not show any rating…….

- 3 January 2009 at 1:33 pm

c0d3 said:

i was also being denied access and i just went into properties and changed the permissions and it worked fine after that, so if anyone else has that problem that might help you too.

- 9 January 2009 at 8:34 am

Killian said:

i wonder why someone would WANT to hack their performance score. its there for your own benefit to tell you the performance of your computer. changing it is just like lying to yourself. you really dont GET anything out of it, except to giggle and say ” huhhuh, duhhh, i gotted 9.5 on my celleron! Huhhuh!”

dips.

this makes as much sense as writing “IM FAST! HONEST! like a VIPER!” on the side of a kia hatchback. all your doing is diluding yourself.

- 6 February 2009 at 10:35 pm

Mogster said:

Why would someone want to do this? Well besides the cool factor to your friends “Dude, look at my score!” lets say Windows is reading your hardware wrong and not enabling Aero because it says your video is 1.0, or in my case your on a Hyper-V with Windows 7 Virtual Machines and it won’t score at all or Vista Virtual Machines also only show 1.0 and won’t enable all the features for beta testing.

- 20 February 2009 at 8:32 pm

Geek Hunter!!! said:

This hack is retarded… If you want to boost your base score, then go out there and buy better parts for you computer. Nothing cool about having a 9.5 when you computer performs at 1.0…

- 24 June 2009 at 2:51 am

PEyN said:

Let’s say u wanna sell ur PC, and want to get little more for it. I guess it could work… hehe!

- 15 August 2009 at 9:24 am

Jed said:

hey brow… is there posible to work in windows 7 nor or not..?

plsss.. reply cozz my rating is very low…
cozz my rating is “1.0″

- 17 January 2010 at 11:19 am

shadow said:

heyyy guyz… is there any posibilitis of this hack will work in windows7?

- 18 January 2010 at 7:27 pm

anonymodude said:

it works on windows 7, there was another name for the file though, i forget, but it is in that folder…it should have the time and date of the assessment, (choose the latest one)… should say ‘assessment formal’ or something like that, should say formal though

i have windows 7 ultimate rtm build 7600, i should know

by the way, i have real rating of 4.6, hacked and got rating of 7.1… since windows 7 maximum rating is 7.9, thought it might make it look realistic!!!

- 10 February 2010 at 2:03 pm