How to remove “Windows Experience Index Rating” from Windows 7 System Properties?

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Description

The objective behind the introduction of Windows Experience Index was to facilitate users with a quick and easy feature to evaluate the performance of hardware components of any PC. It first appeared in Windows Vista. This rating score is displayed in System Properties window as shown in following screenshot:

However, you may remove the feature, if not interested in it.

Recommended for: Windows 7 (also applicable for Windows Vista and Windows 8)

Solution:

Here is how-to:

1. Click “Start>Control Panel>double-click System>Properties.” Alternatively, you may click on the “Computer” icon if it is available on the desktop and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu.

2. Navigate to "%windir%\System32\" folder and copy systemcpl.dll file to some other location for example Desktop.

Note: Here %windir% represents "Windows" directory which can be found in the system drive where Windows is installed. In most of the cases its C:\Windows.

3. Click on the link and open the above file in Resource Hacker. Find the key: UIFILE -> 1001

4. Delete lines 158 to 170 to remove Windows Experience Index rating link:

<element id="atom(RatingInfo)" layoutpos="top" layout="rowlayout(171)" padding="rect(0rp,0rp,0rp,7rp)">
<element content="resstr(1543)" width="150rp"/>
<element layout="borderlayout()">
<element id="atom(RatingImage)" margin="rect(0rp,0rp,3rp,0rp)" layoutpos="none" content="" accessible="true" accrole="graphic" accname="resstr(304)"/>
<element id="atom(RatingInformation)" contentalign="middleleft" layout="borderlayout()" layoutpos="client">
<element layout="flowlayout(0,2)" layoutpos="left" accessible="false">
<NavigateButton layoutpos="left" layout="borderlayout()" navigationtargetroot="Microsoft.PerformanceInformationAndTools">
<button id="atom(RatingText)" active="mouse|keyboard" layoutpos="left" content="resstr(1544)"/>
</NavigateButton>
</element>
</element>
</element>
</element>

5. Once the line are deleted, click on "Compile Script" button, and save the file. 

6. Replace original systemcpl.dll file present in "C:\Windows\System32\" folder with our new systemcpl.dll file which we saved at Desktop or some other location.

7. Now follow as:

a. First take ownership of "C:\Windows\System32\systemcpl.dll" file using following tutorial:

b. Now rename it to "systemcpl_backup.dll" or any other name.

c. Now copy the modified "systemcpl.dll" file from Desktop to "System32" folder.

7. That's it. Now check “System Properties” again and it'll no longer show Windows Experience Index rating score and link.

Congrats! You have successfully removed Windows Experience Index Rating from the Windows 7 System Properties. To fix related issues, contact Techvedic’s computer helpdesk, as per below contact-detail:

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