Vista Upgrade Advisor Never Ends

[Bruce A. Julseth]

I downloaded the Vista Upgrade Advisor, installed it, and ran it. My
problem: it never ends. I let it run, a couple of times, for more then an
hour and never got any results. I am running XP-Pro.

Thanks....

 

[Donald Mills]

Same with me. Started it about 8p, left it, all night, checked in morning,
still going.

 

[Bruce A. Julseth]

Same with me. Started it about 8p, left it, all night, checked in morning,
still going.

OKAY, all you folks who really understand the Vista world, can someone tell
Donald and myself what's happening and what we need to do to get a copy of
the Vista Upgrade Advisor what will work on our system?

Thank you very much.. Really appreciate it.

Bruce

 

[Guest]

Same here.....it never ends. I had no problems running the Vista Upgrade
Advisor on my laptop (Win XP Pro)...it only took a few minutes. But with my
desktop (WinXP Home), it just keeps running and running (could it be the
Energizer Bunny in disguise!). My desktop is a Pentiium 4, 3.2GHz, with 1GB
of RAM, and approx. 150GB of free space on my hard drive.

 

[Dan W.]

Same here.....it never ends. I had no problems running the Vista Upgrade
Advisor on my laptop (Win XP Pro)...it only took a few minutes. But with my
desktop (WinXP Home), it just keeps running and running (could it be the
Energizer Bunny in disguise!). My desktop is a Pentiium 4, 3.2GHz, with 1GB
of RAM, and approx. 150GB of free space on my hard drive.

Have you tried contacting Microsoft? They can be tough to reach
sometimes but I have almost always found Microsoft to be nice and
helpful at least to me and I cannot speak for others.

 

[Bruce A. Julseth]

Have you tried contacting Microsoft? They can be tough to reach sometimes
but I have almost always found Microsoft to be nice and helpful at least
to me and I cannot speak for others.

Yes, I did contact Microsoft Support. My phone call was an answered by
someone with an India accent. He keep trying to send me to the URL where I
wanted to download "Beta Vista." I keep telling him I want support to with
my problem of the Vista Upgrade Advisor never ending. I asked him if he know
want the Vista Upgrade Advisor was and he never answered my question, even
though I asked him 3 or 4 times. He kept putting me on hold then coming back
with information concerning Beta Vista.

I should have hung up and called back hoping to get another support person.
Maybe I'll try that again.

 

[Guest]

I would like to add my name to everyone else that has had this problem with
Windows Upgrade Advisor RC

 

[Guest]

Please add my name as well.

I would like to add my name to everyone else that has had this problem with
Windows Upgrade Advisor RC

 

[Guest]

Add my name to growing chorus of users with the same problem It's like the
Everready Bunny. It just runs and runs and runs

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Add my name to growing chorus of users with the same problem It's like the
Everready Bunny. It just runs and runs and runs

I've seen references to that before - it's a bit odd to me because in the
UK it's the Duracell bunnies that keep on going

 

[Boolean1]

Here, in Pennsylvania, it is the "Energizer Bunny"

Boolean1

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Here, in Pennsylvania, it is the "Energizer Bunny"

Well if you're lucky enough to find a bunny who keeps on going I guess the
energy source doesn't matter too much

 

[Guest]

I am having the smae problem worked once but now does not had it going all
night fof about 9 hours.

 

[Jon]

I am having the smae problem worked once but now does not had it going all
night fof about 9 hours.

Should take about 5 minutes. You may need to be connected to the Internet.

 

[Guest]

I too had this problem...but...I was able to find help on the technet forums
and was able to get the system to run (and in only a few minutes). See the
following threads:

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=472019&SiteID=17&PageID=1

First, be sure you have the newest version of the Vista Upgrade
Advisor...the version I am using now is v. 1 (downloaded just today)....be
sure you have completely uninstalled any earlier versions.

Secondly, be sure before you run the advisor that the VUA files in the temp
directory (C:/documents and settings/<username>/localsettings/temp) are
deleted.

When the Advisor runs correctly, there should be at least four files there:
VUA_Bucketizer_DELLLAPTOPCA.xml
VUA_Collector_DELLLAPTOPCA.xml
VUA_QueryAppBlock_DELLLAPTOPCA.xml
VUA_WinSat_DELLLAPTOPCA.xml

When it did not run correctly, one 3 files were present. After deleting
these files and rerunning the VUA, it ran perfectly in only a few mins.

DELLLAPTOPCA in my case refers to the name of MY machine...yours will be
different.

Hope this works!