I had a strange request from a co-worker today for the windows experience index on this server 2008 64 bit box. For the life of me I can't find winsat. Idon't see anything related to windows system assessment tool in add features wizard. The wikipedia article seems to think Server 2008 should have it, is it just the 64 bit version that doesn't? Am I just missing something simple?

The Wikipedia article on the Windows System Assessment Tool is wrong on multiple points. This is one of them.

A quick look in both x64 and x86 versions of 2008 didn't turn up winsat either. Considering that Windows Server 2008 isa server operating system I think it's excluded since system administrators have more knowledge (hopefully) than the average home user.

Hi Jason, Wikipedia article on the Windows System Assessment Tool is not correct. As far as we known, the WinSAT is not a part of Windows Server 2008. Hope it helps.

ok then what about this?http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770542.aspx

Where do we get the 64bit version of WinSat? From a Vista64? My Windows 2008 server only had WinSat for 32bit in the c:\windows\system32 folder.

Copy winsat.exe and winsatapi.dll from windows 7 64 bit to c:\windows\system32 in windows 2008 R2

I think we can unpack files from Windows Vista x64 CD to windir and register the files. I tried to copy files from Win7x64 CD to 2008R2 sysdir and install games explorer, and it worked. Here's the picture.

I copied the winsat files to my windows 2008 server, and that worked. now I can run winsat on the 2008 server. copy winsa*.* from windows 7 machine to the \system32 folder on the server.