Windows Vista "Capable" and "Premium-Ready" System Requirements

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Mobile — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:22:37 GMT

well jimall you have shared a very vital info with us! i appreciate it.

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skatamatic — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:00:12 GMT

to unhappywithmicrosoft,

which college course costed 28 grand? that sounds like harvard pricing... if you would like to get something out of this blog, you should post your PC specs as well - and not just vent frustrations (which we all undeniably have somewhat towards vista)

i'm a computer technician and i would never charge more than $100 to fix a system. $800 could buy you a vista ready (and installed) system! vista is quite compatible with ALMOST everything at this point, and since the release of SP1 there are even fewer issues. i have a feeling you are either exagerating alot of your points, or have severely damaged your system setup yourself (did you try to do anything where you didn't understand what you were doing?).

to install windows xp...just insert an xp cd and restart your computer... any tech with half an a+ certification WILL be able to install windows vista if your system is compatible.

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UnhappyWithMicrosoft — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:52:59 GMT

Ok maybe someone on here can help, I am very unhappy with Vista. I bought this new computer for an online college program costing me 28 grand for starters. I get the run around saying its a compaq issue, then they tell me compatibility is a microsoft issue, but to call them they want to charge me more money on top of already spending over 800 dollars in order to fix the issues...NOT COOL. Vista apperantley isnt compatable with anything so far, so why release it yet????? I can't even run my programs and CD-roms for school, but yet neither tech seems to know what to do? So my question is to I continue to run Vista in order to keep my warranty active or put XP back on it and wait for Microsoft to figure out they shouldnt screw over theor customers by putting out crappy (in my opinion) an unready products out there. If the answer is the latter and I should put XP on it and have an upgrade disk for it, how do I do this shy of spending yet more money to hire a professional. Very unhappy with the way Microsoft has changed over the years, and I feel this is rediculous to charge to fix something or even talk to tech support when the problem is yours to begin with not mine. Thanks, sorry for the venting but this is really getting frustrating at this point.

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TomWoolf — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:38:54 GMT

Like Karl, I have the Sony VAIO XL1B2 200 Disc DVD/CD Burner Media Changer. I am interested if Karl or anybody else has been able to get it to run on their Vista 64-bit system?

My system seems to recognize it, but will not read any CDs or DVDs. It is infuriating. Frustrating... Some might even say "confusing"...

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nathan922 — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:12:45 GMT

Hey i am about to buy a new pc and i would like to know how it would run using Vista Ultimate-

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.40Ghz/Kentsfield/4MBx2/1066FSB/EMT64/XD/Quad Core)

Asus P5N32-E SLI Nforce680i, Quad core Ready, DDR2, PCI Express, GBLAN, SATA, DTS Connect

Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX 2GB (2x XMS2 1GB) PC-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 RAM, 2x240-pin DIMMs, Non ECC Unbuffered, 4-4-4-12

XFX PV-T80G-THD9 Geforce 8800GTS XXX Edition, 640MB GDDR3, PCI Express, Dual DVI, TV OUT, 550/1800 MHz

Seagate ST3250410AS Baracuda 7200.10 250GB 7200rpm SATAII/300 16mb Cache, NCQ, Perpendicular Recording x2

Pioneer DVR-212BK 8x/18x Dual/Single Unbranded Black OEM – SATA

Samsung 226BW Wide TFT Monitor - Black, Max. Resolution 1680x1050, 2ms Response Time (GtG), Digital / Analog Interface

Antec "Nine Hundred" Tower Gaming Case with Side Window - Black, NO PSU, 9 Drive Bays, Top mounted 200mm exhaust fan, Top USB/IEEE1394/Audio

Antec TruePower Trio 650W ATX Power Supply, 120mm fan, Dual PCI-E Graphics Card Connector

re: Windows Vista "Capable" and "Premium-Ready" System Requirements

Nick White — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:21:38 GMT

Hey chiphead and PC Freak: The Upgrade Advisor is still beta code and so may not work correctly in all instances. But, we do want to know the circumstances involved when it does not work as expected, so I've passed your feedback about it to the Product Manager in charge for review. Thanks.

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Doggy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:44:27 GMT

Vista upgrade advisor cleared my PC for the upgrade, I want to keep the full licence of my XP pro for another PC i am building for the kids so would want to buy a full version licence not an upgrade.

I am currently a mature IT student and (hopefully) will be working in the IT industry shortly.

I have always liked to have my own copy of any software and that's included windows right back to 3.11 and Dos 6.2. after 6 years working on main frames in the armed forces.

I was angling towards the ultimate edition as this would give me not only the most feature packed version to learn about but also enable me to have knowledge of the other 32 bit versions

I have 3 basic questions

Will Vista allow me to go digging around within its core to learn all the tricks etc that Ive picked up about XP or are we locked out of the system as reported on the net etc.

An example is the sysoc.inf file in XP, I edit mine to allow me to uninstall certain options such as accessibility or windows messenger.

and

Does Vista avoid the filling up of the HDD for the sheer hell of it like XP does

very very hidden IE temp files that can only be deleted by 3rd party software or logging in as admin and manually deleting, (WHOS IDEA WAS THAT).

If you have 2 hard drives and a USB stick it insists on 3 recycling bins but only empties one on the desktop and leaves the others to fill up the HDD. I currently have 39Mb of files in my C drive recycling bin that I have to go and manually dig out.

My real gripe about XP is it leaves a trail of crap all over the HDD like some kind of diarrhoea ridden puppy that you constantly have to clean up after otherwise your disk grinds to a halt on every AV scan and defrag.

Linux doesnt feel the need to mark out its territory on every square inch of my free drive space like a tom cat so why oh why does XP and more importantly please tell me that unlike XP, Vista is house trained.

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chiphead — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:03:04 GMT

Nick,

PC Freak posed the following question about the upgrade advisor not working. I'm having the same issue and I'd like to run the program. What's up with error about uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version when I have the latest version???

I'm sure I'll be good to run Vista, I just can't run the advisor to check for drivers, etc..

Thanks!

Hi Nick,

I tried running the upgrade advisor for vista (fresh download), worked well on my desktop but doesn't on my laptop. An Acer Aspire 1694, I do think it meets requirements though (A) (2 Ghz, 1 GB ram, 100 GB hdd, 256 MB ATI X700)

But I was just curious what the advisor would say, and.. why it doesn't work. It says: "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor encountered an error while scanning your system. If the problem persists, you can uninstall Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and reinstall the latest version." I just got it from the MS site :S Tried reinstalling, rebooting.. no answer..

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Nick White — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:29:09 GMT

Hey Elof_Barsk: looks like no one else has addressed your question. The x86 and x64 editions of Windows Vista do indeed require separate installations; you cannot upgrade/downgrade from one to the other.

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JJJ — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:31:59 GMT

Hey Everybody

I have been using Vista since Beta 2 (which sucked)...I am now using RC1 5600 with all the updates. On the whole it has proved a great experience. On the down side, I agree with one of the other guys, third party software seems to take ages to install... the native burning software just grinds so darn slowly.... I wanted to just burn 120 megs of files to cd and it took forever....so I installed Burn Express instead and that was a bit better.

Also for those not able to run transparency, I used glass 2k...which does the transparency thing to the taskbar and windows, havn't found any software that will do the 3d aero thing.My graphics card is a bit rubbish ...ati 9250 256 mg and not direct x 9. Have only had driver issues with my sound blaster value plus and lexmark z617 printer.

Gonna cry when RC1 times out in May...ain't got the cash to buy vista...Nick tell Bill to reduce the price or Im goin' back to Suse 10.2!!!! ;-))

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acoppard1994 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:58:47 GMT

Hello folks,

I have bought a new PC recently, and am wandering wether the PRemiu, upgrade is worth it. I like the look of it, but I use it primelie for web design and games. Will I have to buy all my software again or can I run a backwards compatibiltity (XP). Is it worth it or not. Also does the free upgrade with the computer (Hp m7655) come as a Cd or does my XP product key run out so i am forced to use the new OS? Any light sharing on the idea would be great.

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Elof_Barsk — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:44:38 GMT

I just got my (MSDN AA) Vista Business edition and Im Im all set on the hardware front except some leagcy/older hardware (scanners/printers).

My question is simply if I can install the 32bit edition of Vista first, and then at some later time upgrade or reinstall it but choose the 64 bit version instead? Or am I simply stuck with the version I choose when I install (and activate it) for the first time?

Much obliged

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Teknoman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:52:55 GMT

Hmm well im probably just going to install it on the bigger hard drive anyway (gotta have room for updates and whatnot). Anyway if I installed Home Premium on a hard drive that already had games/other programs on it, it would probably have to erase everything on there and i'd have to reinstall everything?

Also before installing Vista Home Premium on my other HDD, how would I go about uninstalling (and basically clearing out) windows XP from my C drive?

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jeanfor — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:07:46 GMT

I rebooted the system and refreshed the score....It is back to the original value...

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jeanfor — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:54:51 GMT

When I had 1gb of memory in my system the memory sub rating was 4.2. Now I added 1 additional gb and the memory score is 4.0. This is the same memory, same speed, in fact it is the same HP sku # for the memory. All other scores on my system are 5.0 or up. Can you explain this ?