This blog focus on Windows client operating systems; Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The blog covers hints and guides for using new technologies, solutions to problems which are not common and news related to Windows client operating systems.
Andreas Stenhall, MVP Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
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Detailed performance testing with winsat
Posted on April 13th, 2010 No commentsWhat you see in the score for your Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines, you know the score in System properties and Performance and information tools, really comes from the command line tool “winsat”. To find out some very detailed performance specs on your machine and the specific hardware parts such as hard drive, graphics card, memory and such you can run the command winsat with a number of switches.
For instance “winsat disk” runs performance tests on my disks and present it in detail with read/write speeds etc along with the score on each individual test. Give it a try!
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HOW TO: List performance issues with your Vista or Windows 7 machine
Posted on January 25th, 2010 No commentsIn Windows Vista and Windows 7 there is one feature that many does not know about that lists performance issues with your system. It can show you for instance if a driver of any kind is making “sleep mode” take longer than expected or software the make your computer start or turn off slow.
You find this more or less hidden feature by starting “Performance Information and Tools”. Then click “Advanced tools” in the left menu and then look under the first section “Performance issues” for possible causes of system performance issue.
