Vista Advisor

[SD]

Ran Vista Advisor on two occasions.

First time my computer had 933 MHz intel chip, SB live sound card, ATI 9600
Video card, 910 Viewsonic LCD monitor. less then 1 GB memory,Etc., said I
could upgrade to Home Premium.

Ran the Upgrade Advisor today.
My computer was updated, practically all new.
Intel 3.06 chip dual core. new gigabyte MB. 2gigs memory , SB Extreme music
sound card, same ATI video card, Viewsonic 2025 LCD monitor. OS WinXP Home
SP2 all upgrades. IE 7. Now Upgrade Advisor informs me I am a candidate for
Vista Home Basic. What gives? Without even buying an Vista upgrade MS is
throwing me a curve. To much money for OS that already shows a bug. Think
I'll stay with Xp Home.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Did you choose the scenario in which you plan on using your PC? I think
determines the results, although Home Basic is rather strange based upon
your specs which are more on the Vista Ultimate tier.

 

[SD]

Thanks for your Reply, Andre.

It's home desktop computer connected to broadband route with comcast to a
sony laptop which has 1GB memory. When I upgraded WinXP home OS was done on
a clean install with updates, SP2. May re-install a couple games
eventually. I have Hp printer, Paperport scanner, rather old serves my
purpose, fairly new version of WIN Works. Nothing that would remotely
require a business version of vista. Home computer for Internet connection
email, word processing,etc.
"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]"

 

[steve sboj]

I think he is referring to the settings you chose your computer for...ie,
office, business, home, etc.

Can you run the advisor again and let us know what your lowest score is
which might be the cause of that?

Thanks for your Reply, Andre.

It's home desktop computer connected to broadband route with comcast to a
sony laptop which has 1GB memory. When I upgraded WinXP home OS was done
on a clean install with updates, SP2. May re-install a couple games
eventually. I have Hp printer, Paperport scanner, rather old serves my
purpose, fairly new version of WIN Works. Nothing that would remotely
require a business version of vista. Home computer for Internet connection
email, word processing,etc.
"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]"

Did you choose the scenario in which you plan on using your PC? I think
determines the results, although Home Basic is rather strange based upon
your specs which are more on the Vista Ultimate tier.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry

 

[Chad Harris]

SD--

I would not take the Upgrade Advisor too seriously, and particularly with
the formidiable improvements you've made to the box. With that hardware,
and half the RAM you could run any edition and run it well. Also you have a
dual core, and a good sound card. Enjoy it.

The only thing for you to decide with those specs is what Vista edition(s)
do I want that best fit my needs--what am I going to be doing that invokes
features in them?

Checkout the charts and descriptions and make your choices:

Which Vista Edition is Right for You?
December 6, 2006

http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=195652,00.asp

Vista Editions Page MSFT
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx

CH

 

[SD]

Strictly home computer, no office , no business. Other then virus scanner,
ADAware& Spybot, I use MS Money strictly for savings, checking, charge
cards. No updates,stocks or downloads from banks etc.

I think he is referring to the settings you chose your computer for...ie,
office, business, home, etc.

Can you run the advisor again and let us know what your lowest score is
which might be the cause of that?

Thanks for your Reply, Andre.

It's home desktop computer connected to broadband route with comcast to a
sony laptop which has 1GB memory. When I upgraded WinXP home OS was done
on a clean install with updates, SP2. May re-install a couple games
eventually. I have Hp printer, Paperport scanner, rather old serves my
purpose, fairly new version of WIN Works. Nothing that would remotely
require a business version of vista. Home computer for Internet
connection email, word processing,etc.
"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]"

Did you choose the scenario in which you plan on using your PC? I think
determines the results, although Home Basic is rather strange based upon
your specs which are more on the Vista Ultimate tier.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry
Ran Vista Advisor on two occasions.

First time my computer had 933 MHz intel chip, SB live sound card, ATI
9600 Video card, 910 Viewsonic LCD monitor. less then 1 GB memory,Etc.,
said I could upgrade to Home Premium.

Ran the Upgrade Advisor today.
My computer was updated, practically all new.
Intel 3.06 chip dual core. new gigabyte MB. 2gigs memory , SB Extreme
music sound card, same ATI video card, Viewsonic 2025 LCD monitor. OS
WinXP Home SP2 all upgrades. IE 7. Now Upgrade Advisor informs me I am
a candidate for Vista Home Basic. What gives? Without even buying an
Vista upgrade MS is throwing me a curve. To much money for OS that
already shows a bug. Think I'll stay with Xp Home.

 

[Robert Firth]

That is not a bug. It is working fine. It isn't limiting you to Home Basic
because of hardware. I suspect that it is suggesting Home Basic because of
the choices you made in the Upgrade Advisor. The upgrade advisor asks you
about your priorities. Likely you told it that you didn't need much or you
didn't select anything.

The Upgrade Advisor works best when evaluating what software you have
installed is compatible and if your hardware is good enough for a basic
experience. It doesn't suggest a version of Vista based on hardware.

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[Daze N. Knights]

Odd. Upgrade Advisor doesn't ask *me* anything about my priorities. It
always just fingers "Business" as being the best edition for me, no
questions asked.

 

[Robert Firth]

Maybe the new version of the Upgrade Advisor is different...

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[Daze N. Knights]

Mine hasn't asked me anything, whenever I run it, for about the last
three months. How old is yours, anyway?

 

[Jeff]

newest one lets you switch between versions and it lists issues for each
version for hardware,apps,devices etc
ran it twice today on customers xp machines
here's the link to the newest one

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

Jeff

 

[Robert Firth]

Uh, I remember now. I think they had a beta 2 or the like for the Upgrade
Advisor around beta 2 of Vista. Next came the RC version of UA, which I
tried to run, but it hung up. It did look a bit different, maybe that is
what happened. I'll download the latest one tonight and check it out.

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[Jeff]

yup Firth, it's changed from them days aiiight,
Daze is correct
no options ya need to check-it scans-picks the one it thinks is best,but
ya can switch between all the versions,and like I noted;it notes issues for
all of the versions

Jeff

 

[Roy Coorne]

SD schrieb:
....

I'll stay with Xp Home.

You may wish to upgrade to XP Pro - which has a longer support
lifecycle: <http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223>

Roy