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Windows Experience Index can not be refreshed on Guest. How do I properly report this without having my post deleted?

What makes you think your post would be deleted?

The Windows Experience Index is a Microsoft benchmark thing. My Windows 7 guest's index shows 1.0 for graphics and gaming graphics because I haven't installed the 3D acceleration option in the Guest Additions. I recall I saw someone with w 4-ish index on a guest. I think he had the 3D acceleration installed.

If the WEI won't run, check with Microsoft on what errors it reports.

I had 4.9 WEI when I had version 4.3.28 VirtualBox installed. After updating to VirtualBox 5.0, the WEI needs to be updated. I update/refresh the WEI but it crashed in the middle or a little bit after the middle of the test. I try to post my post on the VirtualBox 5.0 updating from 4.3.28 thread and my post was removed. I just want to know how I would proceed to do a proper report on that issue without having my post removed.

Your previous post was deleted because it hijacked a completely unrelated discussion. Off topic posts can and will be deleted, so do try to choose a sensible location.

And I'm afraid that "Windows Hosts" isn't ideal either. Moving this one to "Windows Guests", since that is what the Q relates to. I have also changed your topic title to one which indicates the content.

FWIW, Aero hasn't worked for Windows 7 or Vista on Windows hosts for quite some time. As far as the WEI test, it doesn't crash, It fails to complete with a dialog box saying so. For some reason Windows 7 thinks the VirtulBox WDDM driver is not WDDM compatible. At least on my Windows 8.1 host.

Aero works in Windows 7 as a guest on all my OSX and Linux hosts.