Doing a bit of benchmarking to see what various VM settings changes do for performance, I noticed that the WEI (WinSAT) scores I was getting in my Windows 8 VM would never go down.
Turns out WinSAT was just ratcheting up the scores and I never saw a score go down, even if on a particular run the performance was much less.
Yep, that'll fix it for all those folks who complain that their systems have lost performance. :-)
Note these commands, specifically, for the WinSAT command line:
Winsat formal -restart clean Reruns all assessments and provides the same functionality as "forgethistory".
Winsat forgethistory Choosing to forgethistory will rate a machine as if for the first time.
Moral of the story:
If you really want an assessment of how your Windows 8 system is running right now, open an elevated CMD prompt and type
winsat forgethistory, THEN run your WEI assessment.
-Noel
