Vista - Upgrade Advisor won't work. Why?

I have downloaded and tried to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor and each
time I run it, I get an error window that opens and says:

VistadUpgradeAdvisor.exe--Application Error

The application failed to initialize properly (OxcOOOO135). Click on
OK to terminate the application.
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Anyone know why this is happening? I have a Pentium 4, 1.2, with a 30
gig hard drive, 11 gig free. And I have 1024 megs of ram, if this info
helps.

Mark

You need more that 11 gig of free space to install Vista, with all the
temporary files and such.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"FERRANTE" <ferrante276-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have downloaded and tried to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor and each
> time I run it, I get an error window that opens and says:
>
> VistadUpgradeAdvisor.exe--Application Error
>
> The application failed to initialize properly (OxcOOOO135). Click on
> OK to terminate the application.
> ----------------------------------------------
> Anyone know why this is happening? I have a Pentium 4, 1.2, with a 30
> gig hard drive, 11 gig free. And I have 1024 megs of ram, if this info
> helps.
>
> Mark

Hi,

Go to microsoft.com and locate, download, and install the .net
redistributable (dotnetfx).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"FERRANTE" <ferrante276-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:thdjh2hlk8va0b4tsrs35p27jh5o3akl7q@4ax.com...
>I have downloaded and tried to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor and each
> time I run it, I get an error window that opens and says:
>
> VistadUpgradeAdvisor.exe--Application Error
>
> The application failed to initialize properly (OxcOOOO135). Click on
> OK to terminate the application.
> ----------------------------------------------
> Anyone know why this is happening? I have a Pentium 4, 1.2, with a 30
> gig hard drive, 11 gig free. And I have 1024 megs of ram, if this info
> helps.
>
> Mark

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:49:39 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Go to microsoft.com and locate, download, and install the .net
>redistributable (dotnetfx).

Ok, I did what you said, but I am having trouble installing it. When I
execute the file, it asks me to locate a folder for the extracted
files. I just picked a temp folder I have, click OK, and it says:

Setup could not find a drive with 21827 kb free disk space to install
the program. Please free up some space and try again.
-------------------------------------
I have almost 12 gigs free on my HD. What do I do now, please?

Mark

Hi,

Delete files in the both the the %windir%\temp and %userprofile%\local
settings\temp folders, then retry.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"FERRANTE" <ferrante276-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:49:39 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Go to microsoft.com and locate, download, and install the .net
>>redistributable (dotnetfx).
>
> Ok, I did what you said, but I am having trouble installing it. When I
> execute the file, it asks me to locate a folder for the extracted
> files. I just picked a temp folder I have, click OK, and it says:
>
> Setup could not find a drive with 21827 kb free disk space to install
> the program. Please free up some space and try again.
> -------------------------------------
> I have almost 12 gigs free on my HD. What do I do now, please?
>
> Mark

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:07:16 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Delete files in the both the the %windir%\temp and %userprofile%\local
>settings\temp folders, then retry.

Where do I find these folders? I looked and could not find them
anywhere.

Thanks,
Mark

Are you sure you should be installing Vista? Look in Windows on your XP
system also Documents and Settings\(username)\local settings\temp

"FERRANTE" <ferrante276-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:07:16 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Delete files in the both the the %windir%\temp and %userprofile%\local
>>settings\temp folders, then retry.
>
> Where do I find these folders? I looked and could not find them
> anywhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Hi,

Click start/run, or hit the winkey+r to open the run box, then either type
or copy/paste the paths given and hit <enter>. Likely it is that you are
either not set to see hidden and system folders, or perhaps you are not
familiar with the use of % variables.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"FERRANTE" <ferrante276-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:vvjrh2l5mt4qg4maljn85sn82o7csd997h@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:07:16 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Delete files in the both the the %windir%\temp and %userprofile%\local
>>settings\temp folders, then retry.
>
> Where do I find these folders? I looked and could not find them
> anywhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Mark - %windir% and %userprofile% are "place holders" - in their place you
substitute the actual name used on your computer. Standard usage %windir% =
C:\Windows and %userprofile% = user name on you computer.
Mark - I agree with John - if you feel comfortable with your Windows
knowledge OK - if not do not consider Vista at this time.

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> Are you sure you should be installing Vista? Look in Windows on your XP
> system also Documents and Settings\(username)\local settings\temp
>
> "FERRANTE" <ferrante276-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:vvjrh2l5mt4qg4maljn85sn82o7csd997h@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:07:16 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Delete files in the both the the %windir%\temp and %userprofile%\local
>>>settings\temp folders, then retry.
>>
>> Where do I find these folders? I looked and could not find them
>> anywhere.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>
>