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Microsoft Releases Game Advisor For Windows

Posted by Zonk on from the helping-you-feel-inadequate dept.

av_2_0 writes "Microsoft has released a web accessible Game Advisor for Windows. This will check your system's configuration, compare it with a knowledge base of around 360 games and tell you if your system is compatible." Requires the use of IE and the install of an ActiveX thingie. My system is apparently faster than 58% of systems checked.

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  1. FYI by theantipop · · Score: 2, Informative

    This thing is at least three months old. I don't know if they changed something since then, but I'm not willing to fire up IE to install the control to find out.

  2. this is pretty old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Now Im not sure whats goin on here, But this has been out for at least 3 years now. Which explains the crappy machines getting high rankings, most of the scans were done eons ago.

  3. Re:Yawn. by storem · · Score: 2, Informative

    This must be one of the worst tools ever experienced. First it's kind of a CPU whore; goes on being nothing more then a white page, finally crashes IE... Maybe I should try from within Firefox :-)

    To remove the ActiveX: delete the "Measurement Services Client v3.7" file from "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files".

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