Upgrade Advisor won't work. Why?

[FERRANTE]

I have downloaded and tried to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor and each
time I run it, I get an error window that opens and says:

VistadUpgradeAdvisor.exe--Application Error

The application failed to initialize properly (OxcOOOO135). Click on
OK to terminate the application.
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Anyone know why this is happening? I have a Pentium 4, 1.2, with a 30
gig hard drive, 11 gig free. And I have 1024 megs of ram, if this info
helps.

Mark

 

[Richard Urban]

You need more that 11 gig of free space to install Vista, with all the
temporary files and such.

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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!

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Go to microsoft.com and locate, download, and install the .net
redistributable (dotnetfx).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[FERRANTE]

Hi,

Go to microsoft.com and locate, download, and install the .net
redistributable (dotnetfx).

Ok, I did what you said, but I am having trouble installing it. When I
execute the file, it asks me to locate a folder for the extracted
files. I just picked a temp folder I have, click OK, and it says:

Setup could not find a drive with 21827 kb free disk space to install
the program. Please free up some space and try again.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Delete files in the both the the %windir%\temp and %userprofile%\local
settings\temp folders, then retry.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[FERRANTE]

Hi,

Delete files in the both the the %windir%\temp and %userprofile%\local
settings\temp folders, then retry.

Where do I find these folders? I looked and could not find them
anywhere.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[John Barnes]

Are you sure you should be installing Vista? Look in Windows on your XP
system also Documents and Settings\(username)\local settings\temp

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Click start/run, or hit the winkey+r to open the run box, then either type
or copy/paste the paths given and hit <enter>. Likely it is that you are
either not set to see hidden and system folders, or perhaps you are not
familiar with the use of % variables.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[AJR]

Mark - %windir% and %userprofile% are "place holders" - in their place you
substitute the actual name used on your computer. Standard usage %windir% =
C:\Windows and %userprofile% = user name on you computer.
Mark - I agree with John - if you feel comfortable with your Windows
knowledge OK - if not do not consider Vista at this time.