Check if your PC can run Windows Vista

[Phil Anthropist]

Want to see if your Windows XP-based PC can run Windows Vista?

Just download, install, and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

Minimum requirements for Windows Vista:
CPU at least 800MHz
512MB of system memory
DirectX 9 capable graphics card

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Down load an advisor beta for a beta program? You have got to be kidding.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Donald L McDaniel]

Want to see if your Windows XP-based PC can run Windows Vista?

Just download, install, and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

Minimum requirements for Windows Vista:
CPU at least 800MHz
512MB of system memory
DirectX 9 capable graphics card

I really wouldn't count on the above "mimimum requirements" to be able
to "run Vista". And if your HD has LESS than 20GB FREE space, the OS
won't even INSTALL, much less RUN.

The above "minimum requirements" will give you (at the most), a
Windows XP environment with a different theme (but NOT the Aero
Theme).

Basically, it would look and run much like XP Home today.

Microsoft just wants to sell Vista. So they cast their net as wide as
possible in their advertising.

If your machine only fits the "minimum requirements", DON'T count on
being able to "run Vista" once it is released to manufacturing.

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Donald L. McDaniel
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[Guest]

Want to see if your Windows XP-based PC can run Windows Vista?

Just download, install, and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

Minimum requirements for Windows Vista:
CPU at least 800MHz
512MB of system memory
DirectX 9 capable graphics card
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I downloaded the vista upgrade advisor and clicked the check now and hours and hours go by. I finally stop it. What am i doing wrong , does it really take a long time for it to check out my computor to see if it is compatible? I keep going and trying it but it always takes tooo long.

 

[Richard Urban]

The advisor should not take more than 5-10 minutes to run.

Is your computer so under powered that Upgrade Advisor will not even run?
Did you check the minimum specs needed to run Vista? How does your computer
stack up against the recommended minimum?

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Regards,

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

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