How to use the Winsat command to know the performance of your PC

Despite the fact that it is a tool that has been accompanying the Microsoft operating system since Windows Vista, it is still largely unknown to many users. We refer to winsata tool that allows us to enhance a evaluation to operating system and? performs tests on the main components of the equipment to check its features and performance. Next, we are going to show what it is for and how to use the Winsat command to .

winsat is a command line based tool, therefore, we will have to open a Windows command prompt or CMD window to use it. It is convenient that we open it with administrator permission. One of the main functions of Winsat is the one that allows us to prepare a complete report with the real performance of our equipment and all its components.

Know the performance of your PC components with Winsat

To produce this report, we open a command prompt window as administrator and run the command Winsat FORMAL. The first time we execute this command, the process may take a little longer depending on the computer’s hardware, however, to recover the values ​​of the tests carried out, it is enough to execute the command Winsat QUERY.

The Winsat syntax is WINSAT . While an evaluation name is always required, the modifiers are optional. The FORMAL test runs the full set of tests, while it is also possible to run each test individually separately.

Among the main evaluations, desktop, cpu that of the computer’s CPU, mem that of the system memory, disk the evaluation of our storage device, half run the media assessment, mfmedia the one based on Media Foundation and Features runs only the equipment characteristics evaluation.

To these evaluations we can also add cpuformalwhich runs the CPU capability test and check and displays the result of various technical parameters or graphicsformalwhich assesses the ability of graphics for gaming and multimedia playback.

To see the execution of any of the tests with all its details, just add at the end the -V optionand if what we want is to save the test data in a file, we will use the command Winsat evaluationname -XML “pathwheretosavethefile”. However, each time a component check is performed, Winsat creates an XML file with its information that is saved in the path c:windowsperformancewinsatdatastore.