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Windows Vista incorporates many firsts for Microsoft — some good, some dubious. Microsoft’s first officially sanctioned hardware performance benchmark, the Windows Experience Index (WEI), displays some useful information — if you understand its limitations. Save yourself time and money by looking behind the numbers. The trouble with Vista’s benchmarks Hardware benchmarks have suffered a long, checkered hist…

By Woody Leonhard The Windows Experience Index PC benchmarking suite, which was introduced in Vista, is modified somewhat in Windows 7 — and not always for the better. If you know which numbers to ignore, however, the Experience Index can save you a heap of money on a Windows 7 machine. Anatomy of the Windows Experience Index PC benchmarks have been around about as long as there have been PCs. I remember sweating over benc…

…own file types. While you’re here, you might also want to have Windows show you hidden files. Simply click the radio button that says Show hidden files, folders and drives. Click OK. Now you’re ready to search. Indexing significantly speeds up searching There are two different ways to look for things on a computer. First, Windows can do a simple scan — the dumb, sequential, brute-force approach. When Windows Search scans a f…