Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

[bluesnow]

Looks like this forum is pretty dead . . . let liven it up!

Has anyone had a problem installing/running the Windows 7 upgrade advisor? I tried installing it numerous times from Firefox and then IE8 without success. There was no error message, no nothin', the screen just sat there waiting for the screensaver to kick in. Through numerous internet searches I found out that if you have an ampersand (&) in your current, existing windows log-in ID then the utility will not install and there's no message saying why.

My log in ID is B&D and my daughter's in T&S. This caused me considerable heartache till I figured out the solution. You can download the utility Windows7UpgradeAdvisor.exe to your hard drive then use Winrar on it to extract the files, then run runfirst.cmd to install it. It should install then.

One of the tests it performs is to see if your video card meets the requirements of Windows Aero. The test is flawed and may tell you your card won't support it when really it will. Check MS's web site for video card requirements if this happens to you.

[VincentLupo]

Great info Bluesnow. Thank you.

[dirk8837]

i found the upgrade advisor to be ok, it didn't flag up any issues at all for me, but i found when i was installing win7, when it done the compatibility check it then found it couldn't tell if my drive was using bit-locker encryption or not, I'm not using it btw, so i had to do a clean install instead of an upgrade, which was a bit of a pain

[bluesnow]

The Win 7 Upgrade Advisor has been updated and this problem has been fixed.