Vista Readiness Advisor

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From CNet:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3672_7-6671810.html?tag=nefd.aof

Run from Windows XP. Use in addition to the Microsoft Vista Upgrade Advisor.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
F-Prot reported that an unknown virus attempted to access temp files
after I installed the active-x while the cnet scan was running. Heuristics
blocked something - I'll let the AV scan my computer as recommended.
 
Hopefully CNET's app won't be systemically replete with false statements
about what is needed to upgrade to run Vista because MSFT's has been from
the get go.

It comes accross to me as either

1) well intended and incompetently executed and made to the point of being a
joke

2) made with intent to cow and intimidate the unwarry into buying new
computers and new hardware and ultimately selling more OEM pre-installed
Vista that denies the buyer of expensive hardware the way to use Win RE's
startup repair to rescue vista which won't be availalble from most OEM's
hidden partitions or Recovery DVDs.


That's because MSFT has pushed OEMs not to offer the OS DVD as a repair
mechanism with their pcs so they can make more money selling retail OS DVDs.
Last quarter MSFT's OEM Windows sales increased by 19% and their retail
Windows sales plummeted by 19%.

CH
 
I ran it and it says that I can run vista basic alright, but I can not run
vista ultimate properly.

I am running vista ultimate RC2 , build 5744 and all seems fine.

So you can run the readiness adviser, but the results (IMO) are not much
use.

FYI

P4 3.2 gig with HT
2 X 200 gig SATA HD's
Nvidia 7900 GTO graphics card
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
Sony DVD/RW
Sony DVD rom

NIK
 
I guess that is why they call it an advisor and not a judge.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
It is an advisor, nothing more.
If you consider the wide variables in hardware and software, no two
computers are identical.

If you want facts for a specific computer system the only way to know for
sure is to install as you have done.

Unfortunately no matter what the result, there is no guarantee.
 
Mac guarantees.

Jupiter Jones said:
It is an advisor, nothing more.
If you consider the wide variables in hardware and software, no two
computers are identical.

If you want facts for a specific computer system the only way to know for
sure is to install as you have done.

Unfortunately no matter what the result, there is no guarantee.
Click to expand...
 
I ran the advisor on my windows emulator I wrote for my Vic20 and it said it
could run Vista Ultimate. I don't think this program has much
creditability.
 
My advice is that if you have satisfied the basic hardware requirements that
are covered on the Technet Vista site, that you are going to be able to run
Vista and run it well, regardless of what these upgrade advisors say. I
know my sound works find; but it said my sound driver (Turtle Beach Santa
Cruz vintage ME but not specifically for ME) wouldn't work. It works great.
It said I needed new IDE ATA Controller and new IEEE Bus Controller but that
just was not the case.

As to Aero glass, granted you need in most cases the requisite type (WDDM
128MB RAM) driver MSFT says however there have been people to achieve it
with a 64 MB driver.

GPUs that Support Vista
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905088.aspx#EDD


http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/flash/tips/tips_092805_2.mspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905088.aspx

Hardware Guidance for Vista
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905090.aspx

CH
 
No, it does not.
This is not a MAC newsgroup.
I never said anything about MACS, YOU did.
I know MAC discussions do not belong here, apparently you do not.
Your attempt to hijack this thread to suit whatever agenda you may have
fails miserably unless your objective is to prove yourself a troll as you
have many times before.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org
 
A retard says what?

Jupiter Jones said:
No, it does not.
This is not a MAC newsgroup.
I never said anything about MACS, YOU did.
I know MAC discussions do not belong here, apparently you do not.
Your attempt to hijack this thread to suit whatever agenda you may have
fails miserably unless your objective is to prove yourself a troll as you
have many times before.
Click to expand...
 
It's just a suggestion. Not a reality. However does Vista run fine with a
normal workload for you? Odds are an OS can run fine until you load it up
with work. Thus it's just a suggestion. They can't speculate what you WILL
DO with the OS once it's installed.
 
Folks we have Windows XP across all of our fleet (13,000 PC's) and run SMS
2003.
Is there an enterprise version of the MS Vista readiness advisor?
As we record everything about our PC's in the SMS database I would hope we
could just run this tool (ideally as a plug in to SMS) across the database to
"advise" us regarding the ability of our hardware to take Vista Enterprise.
 
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