Tue, December 12, 2006, 07:47 AM under
Windows |
Vista
Do you remember the
Windows Experience Index (earlier known as
System Performance Rating)?
Well, it is available programmatically via the Windows System Assessment Tool (i.e. the
WinSAT API). This is a COM API that, at a high level, gives you back the two things: the information and a bitmap.
Here is a screenshot of the output if I query the SAT on my laptop from C# console app. Console shows the details and the pop up windows form shows the bitmap
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