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Why is it important to run the Vista upgrade advisor prior to an installation?
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∙ 14y ago
It will alert you to any software you have presently installed that may conflict with Vista. I believe it also tells you if your system has the power and memory needed to run Vista. You need 2GB of RAM at least to run Vista.
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To make sure that all hardware or software installed on the system is compatible with windows vista use the?
Vista Upgrade Advisor
How do you upgrade from vista business to Vista Ultimate?
It's something called "Windows Anytime Upgrade". To go to Vista Ultimate from Vista Business, it will cost you $139.00 Please make sure you're system is capable of running Vista Ultimate by downloading the "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor" directly from Microsoft below: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx Now, read this page for "Windows Anytime Upgrade" : http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/37070041-1b90-4433-be0c-ab2855841b981033.mspx Hope this helps.
How do you upgrade from vista to 7?
See the related link to the Windows Upgrade Advisor. It downloads a small program which scans your system to determine (a) whether your computer can handle Windows 7 and (b) tells you which upgrade to get.
How do you install Windows Vista on a computer that has windows xp?
You should buy an upgrade version of Windows Vista however your computer if running XP is likely not to be powerful enough to run windows vista. You should run Microsoft Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor before upgrading as this will show you any problems your computer may have running Vista.
If you have Windows XP can you download Windows 7?
You cannot upgrade from XP directly to Windows 7. You must upgrade to Vista first, or perform a new installation.
What does using an in place upgrade enable you to do for windows 7?
upgrade from the vista installation to window 7 without unistalling windows vista firstreview a list of recommendations for upgrading to windows 7 before proceeding with the upgrads\e
You have windows 98 can you update to Windows Vista on a desktop?
It depends on what kind of hardware you have. There is no direct upgrade from 98 to Vista. You'll have to basically format the drive and do a clean installation.
If you had a Windows xp and upgrade to vista when you reboot it will it be windos xp?
No. Obviously, if you upgrade to Windows Vista, you will have Windows Vista.
Can you upgrade Vista into 7 for free?
No, you must buy the installation DVD. Or I you know somebody that has already bought it, you can just borrow it, install, and then return it.
Is Word Perfect 2000 compatible with Vista Home Premium?
Download Microsoft's Windows Vista Upgrade advisor tool. If there are any probolems with any of the software you have currently installed, the tool will tell you whether or not you will be able to run it in Vista. Please note this only works if you don't have vista installed already.
Can you use the upgrade DVD of window vista home premium to perform a clean installed on a PC that already has window xp professional installed?
Technically no. However, assuming you have a valid XP license, it's really a technological / user preference issue whether you bother keeping the old XP files on the drive or not; it's frankly none of Microsoft's business whether you erase them or not, or when you choose to do so. So, assuming your XP license is valid, just do this: 1. Install Vista. Don't enter a license key, and don't choose to do an Upgrade install, do a Custom install. At the step of the install where you select a hard drive partition to use, go ahead and format it, just as if you were doing a full clean installation. 2. When you're asked to activate Windows, don't. Your upgrade install keys won't work anyway. 3. At this stage, your computer will have a clean install of Vista. The only problem is that it will stop working after 30 days. 4. However ... you now have a computer with a clean install of Vista, and you can use the upgrade keys to upgrade from a version of Vista to a version of Vista, even if the two versions of Vista are actually the same. So install again and choose to do an upgrade. You'll overwrite your clean installation with an upgrade installation, but they'll be the same files that came off the disk the first time. The end result is that you wind up with an "upgrade" copy of Vista that's essentially identical to that you'd get from a true clean install, and since it's an upgrade and you did an upgrade installation, your upgrade keys will work. The above procedure is probably sufficient if you're fairly computer savvy, but if you need your hand held, search for "vista clean install from upgrade media" and you should find sites with more details.
You want to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 using the Windows 7 home premium Upgrade from Vista on my PC will it delete everything on my PC and just change the operating system?
If you upgrade the system through the windows 7 installation menu, it's supposed to keep everything. If you do a fresh install, all your data on the system disk will be lost.
