I think this is going to surprise many people, I mean your system is no slouch and not that old.
The Vista Home Basic would effectively be more limited than XP Home, some upgrade ;D
I wasn’t too surprised at the No compatibility data for this or that product with it being so new, I had a similar experience when I first ran the XP compatibility tool some years ago and trying to get driver/program updates before I upgraded was a pain.
A couple of my programs would only work in compatibility mode for (win85/98) I don’t know if Vista is going to go down that route or how far pack it might go.
Good luck if you decide to upgrade or should that be downgrade to Vista Home Basic.
In fact… a lot of people won’t be able to upgrade right now.
Hardware manufactures will have big sales if people decide to upgrade in mass…
Like David, I’ll need to wait a little.
Because I'll soon have the pleasure of evaluating Windows Vista forThe Register in a series of articles concerned with the user experience, administration tools, and security features, I wanted to be certain that this new OS is compatible with my hardware.
Fortunately, Microsoft has a website devoted to answering these questions, although it takes the ludicrously arrogant stance of informing potential punters whether or not they are ready for Vista, rather than the other way round. It’s quite irritating, actually, because the only question that needs answering is whether MS and partners have enough device drivers handy and have exorcised enough of the bugs from this bloatware monster to enable it to run properly on the equipment that most users have got. Remember, we call it an “operating system”, not an “operated system”, for a reason: it’s the OS’s duty to run your machine, not your machine’s duty to run the OS - but just try making that point to a Microserf.
Regardless of how much the vendors are to blame, and how much MS is, the Vista Upgrade Advisor is sure to be a marketing fiasco. Ideally, it should be a tool to help consumers choose an edition of Vista that will work for them, and reassure them that they can upgrade if they want to, without having to buy new equipment. Instead, it demonstrates nothing so much as the fact that Vista is still half-baked. No one is going to buy it if they sense that it's not ready to run their machines and applications smoothly. And yet, that is the distinct impression that the Advisor utility gave me.
I’m quite ready for Vista, as most users are. The real problem is that, this late in the game, Vista doesn’t appear at all ready for us. ®
Just seen a Full page add in the paper Vista Home ‘Upgrade’ £99.99 (about $190) and Vista Home Premium ‘Upgrade’ £149.99 (about $285). Whilst this is for a large Electrical Retailer (reserve and collect) these are likely to be the standard pricing and this is for the ‘upgrade’ not ‘retail’ versions.
The Ad is as dull as ditch water and just as informative.
With the launch of Windows Vista, many people are wondering if they should upgrade their computers to the new operating system. Use this chart to help you decide if an upgrade is right for you ??? :
I was reading a computer magazine and many of them feel because of the Vista upgrade cost implications with hardware specifications that mean many will have to upgrade or replace their system to be able to run a half decent version (not the crippled vista home basic). Add that to the extortionate price for upgrade versions many will seriously delay an upgrade to vista until they have to replace their system.
I for one will be staying with XP Pro for the foreseeable future. Out of interest I thought I would run the upgrade check and I couldn’t get that to run on Maxthon even downgrading my security to allow activeX to run.
I work at a retailer that sells Vista. What I am reading and hearing form others is that the only virus protection that Vista will work with is Windows Live One Care.
Has anyone heard if Avast is addressing this problem? I won’t do Vista if I can’t have Avast.
System Requirements - avast! Home Edition
also works with the Pro version…
look at bottom of page…its says VISTA : :o
Please note: hardware configurations described below represent the minimum recommended system specification for that operating system.
For a computer running Windows® 95/98/Me:
486 Processor, 32MB RAM and 50MB of free hard disk space.
For a computer running Windows® NT® 4.0:
486 Processor, 24MB RAM and 50MB of free hard disk space and Service Pack 3 (or higher) installed
For a computer running Windows® 2000/XP® Workstation (Not Server):
Pentium class Processor, 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) and 50 MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows® XP® 64-bit Edition:
An AMD Athlon64, Opteron or Intel EM64T-enabled Pentium 4 / Xeon processor, 128MB RAM (256MB recommended) and 50 MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows® Vista:
Pentium 4 processor, 512MB RAM and 50 MB of free hard disk space
Many people are upset by the fact that the economical, "upgrade" version of Vista
won't accept a Windows XP or Windows 2000 CD-ROM as proof of ownership. V
ista Upgrade is said to install only to a hard disk that already has XP or 2000 already on it.
But I’ve tested a method that allows you to clean-install the Vista upgrade version on any hard drive,
with no prior XP or W2K installation — or even a CD — required.
Features in XP excluded from Vista Some features present in Windows XP are no longer present in Windows Vista.
GDI and GDI+ applications running in the new compositing engine, Desktop Window Manager, will no longer be hardware-accelerated.
Since Windows Vista features a rewritten audio stack and does not inherit the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for audio that was present under previous versions of Windows,
including Windows XP, there will be no more hardware acceleration of DirectSound and DirectSound3D APIs. As a result, hardware 3D algorithms for audio spatializations such as EAX, HRTF etc.
using these APIs will be lost. Developers can use OpenAL to use 3D audio spatializations. [62]
User interface for advanced file type functionality (such as defining custom secondary actions or showing extensions only for specific file types) has been removed.
Vista-compatible applications are expected to use new Default Programs API. [63]
Windows Messenger is being removed entirely; no replacement for it is expected to be included, in favour of a link to Windows Live Messenger on the Welcome Center.
NetMeeting is also being removed entirely, in favor of Windows Meeting Space.
Internet Explorer is no longer integrated with Windows Explorer. This can also be seen in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Windows XP’s well-known Luna theme has been removed.
The Gopher protocol, an old protocol now considered obsolete, is no longer supported.
MS-CHAP v1 protocol is no longer supported for VPN authentication, in favor of MS-CHAP v2. [64]
Several old and little-used technologies have been removed from Internet Explorer: DirectAnimation support, Direct3D Retained Mode, XBM images, CDF,
telnet protocol handlers, and 40-bit SSL ciphers.
HTML source is more easily accessed through a browser than through the protocol.
Links to the Backgammon, Hearts, Reversi, Spades and Checkers games on MSN Gaming Zone have been removed. Pinball has also been removed.
Motherboard support for ACPI is required for Windows Vista; as a result, older motherboards supporting only Advanced Power Management will no longer work.
Other “legacy” hardware technologies no longer supported include: EISA buses, game ports, MPU-401, AMD K6/2+ Mobile Processors, Mobile Pentium II, and
Mobile Pentium III SpeedStep; ISAPnP[65] is disabled by default.
Startup Hardware Profiles have been removed.
Unlike Outlook Express, Windows Mail has no support for HTTP mail via the WebDAV protocol (used by older Hotmail accounts and Yahoo! Mail);
the addition of Windows Live Mail Desktop is likely to be required for similar functionality and there is a link to this from the Welcome Center.
IPX networks are no longer supported.
rexec, rsh, finger, and some other command-line tools primarily used to communicate with UNIX-based systems have been removed from the default installation.
The Subsystem for Unix-based applications (SUA) (previously known as Services for Unix) still provides them as an optional component.
Rarely used protocols such as Bandwidth Allocation Protocol and X.25 support for SLIP have also been removed. SLIP connections are automatically upgraded to use PPP.
Due to unpopularity, IP over 1394 (FireWire) support has been removed.[66]
Windows Explorer’s Web Publishing Wizard has been removed.
HyperTerminal has been removed.
Services for Macintosh, which provided file and print sharing via the now deprecated AppleTalk protocol, has been removed.
SerialKeys, an accessibility feature for augmentative communicative devices is no longer supported. [67]
FrontPage Server Extensions has been dropped and is being replaced with Windows SharePoint Services client support.
Support for enabling a folder for web sharing with Internet Information Services via the Windows Explorer interface has been removed.
NetDDE, a technology that allows applications using the DDE transport to transparently exchange data over a network, is no longer supported. [57]
As with x64 editions of Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, in x86-64 versions of Windows Vista, NTVDM, the subsystem for running (emulating)
16-bit applications is no longer present.
The ability to view and edit metadata stored in a file’s secondary stream through the “Summary” tab of the file’s “Property” dialog has been removed.[68]
Support for reading .DOC files has been removed from WordPad, and is instead done with Microsoft’s Word Viewer. [69]
The Toolbar button in Explorer to go up one folder from the current folder has been removed.
Version 6.4 of Windows Media Player (mplayer2.exe) is no longer included.
Wow that is quite a list, almost makes you wonder what they spent the last five years doing ;D
For me the worst isn’t mentioned, the disparity in the XP Home to Vista Home Basic version, to get the same overall functionality (excluding those listed above) you would have to get the Vista Home premium.
But what grips me more is being ripped off in the UK, when the dollar/pound ratio is almost 2 to 1 the $149 vista home premium ‘upgrade’ costs £149.99 at anything like the rate of exchange this should be about £80. I guess I will have to check out ebay if I ever get around to upgrading to vista.
I used this tool and got no problems, then started to install and it then had problems, I had to delte nero burn and mcaffee firewall. It also now will not let em run avast but have deleted it and doing a complete reinstall and scan. Hopefully this fixes this issue as I love avast.
