Use Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor to check is your computer prepared for Vista

By SoftwareTipsPalace.com | Date: June 18, 2007

Windows Vista is finally out and if you still didn’t buy her this is the right time, but the biggest question is, is your computer prepared for Windows Vista. In order to know if your current configuration is compatible with the Windows Vista versions, Microsoft publishes a tool for diagnosis entitled quite simply “Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor”

The software first of all enables you to determine your needs: according to whether you need the interface Aero, the functionalities Media Center or the advanced tools for encoding of the data, Upgrade Advisor will direct you towards one of the editions of the operating system.

This tool will detect your hardware configuration and determine if your PC is ready to accommodate Windows Vista by detailing the peripherals which are supported by the system and those for which it will be necessary to be put in search of a pilot. The configurations answering the specifications recommended by Microsoft are seen allotted the label “Vista Premium Ready”.

Installation of Vista Upgrade Advisor

1. Once you went on the official site, after having downloaded the software and having launched the achievable one you will see this image,
2. Here you need application “MSXML” if you do not have it already. Thus click on “Download and install msxml” to go to recover it.
3. Choose the language on which you want to download this file; available languages are: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish,
4. Now click on “Downloading the files below” then take the first file in the case of a traditional Windows version 32bits, Click on “Next” button,
5. Click “Finish”, then recliquez on the achievable one of Vista Upgrade Advisor; it is extremely probable that you see this if you do not have the framework installed on your machine
6. Click on “Install the .NET Framework” this will lead you directly towards the file to be downloaded
7. Click on “Next”
8. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 was installed successfully.
9. Click on “Next”,
10. Click on “Closed” in order to launching Vista Upgrade Advisor.

How-To use Windows Upgrade Advisor

After launching Vista Upgrade Advisor click on “Start Scan” to launch the scan of your machine. Reassure that will be caught only a few minutes. It should be noted that in bottom you have a short presentation of Windows Vista and its various versions (as well as the various functionalities). Once the finished scan click on “See details”,

If your PC is compatible with Windows Vista you must have this message on top of the window (“Your computer can run Windows Vista”). Note that on the left you find the various versions of Windows Vista. You can find different messages on the level compatibility with your material, applications etc according to versions'.

But it is not all it should not be satisfied owing to the fact that this says to you that your PC is Vista compatible, even if that is already a good thing. We will be interested in the messages “warnings” which indicates to us the software on our hardware, programs etc this with an aim for example of downloading updates to then install them under Vista or of trying to correct the problem if that is possible. See while descending in the window what that says to you.

For example click on “See Details” more because this is the goal,

I have this message: “Your current video card will not support the Windows Aero to use experiment”. Approximately this says to me that the current graphics board does not support Windows Aero which is the specific graphic environment of Windows Vista. The goal here will be thus to try to find an update for drivers of the chart so that this one can support this environment.

If not you have the mention “Click young stag” to know the list of the graphics boards which support Windows Aero. Here now to have a total summary on the button “List Task”

Here you can see some council to know what to make before and after having installed Windows Vista. More in bottom you will have a summary of the various messages “warnings” that Vista Upgrade Advisor announced you in the case of the graphics board for example, but this is often to announce that it will be necessary to update the pilots of certain components or that certain applications installed on your system currently will not be compatible. Finally you have the possibility of safeguarding this summary or of even printing it in order to have all information necessary to make correctly turn Windows Vista on your PC.

Here is a good initiative of Microsoft because this enables you to see there a little more clearly in the multiple editions and the necessary material specifications to make turn Windows Vista.