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How to raise my windows experience base score?

This is what my score is looking like... Component Details Subscore Base score Processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 4.8 Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.9 Graphics ATI Radeon X1250 3.3 Gaming graphics 1854 MB Total available graphics memory 3.0 Primary hard disk 165GB Free (231GB Total) 5.2 Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate System -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manufacturer TOSHIBA Model Satellite L305D Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM System type 64-bit operating system Number of processor cores 2 Storage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total size of hard disk(s) 231 GB Disk partition (C:) 165 GB Free (231 GB Total) Media drive (D:) CD/DVD Graphics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Display adapter type ATI Radeon X1250 Total available graphics memory 1854 MB Dedicated graphics memory 128 MB Dedicated system memory 0 MB Shared system memory 1726 MB Display adapter driver version 8.401.0.0 Primary monitor resolution 1280x800 DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better Network -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Network Adapter Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) Network Adapter Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter Network Adapter Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter Any ideas? Would a 320gb or a 500gb hard drive make a difference in speed? I'm not having a major problem I just want it to be very reliable. It's a laptop, how hard is it to change my video card and is there a link that gives me a selection?

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1. Have you tried updating all your drivers? They make a lot of difference, especially with graphic cards and motherboards. However, your score will only go down continuously until it is totally insignificant. That's MS' marketing telling you to spend more money on your computer. But from what I can tell, you can just change your graphic card.
2. Agree with darkmax, try updating your drivers, Nvidia or ATI, always come out with their little bug fixes, which often increase your graphical percentages. Uh, other than that, the vista experience based scores, are just the calculations of your lowest sub scores, so check what you need to be higher, and either find the drivers, or if you have the highest version drivers, try cleaning out your system, with spyware programs or etc. Other than that, you'd pretty much settle on getting new parts. (Don't rely on Vista's windows based experience" its only meant to give you a taste of your specs=)