Vista - Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor doesn't finish...

I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
launched this tool @ least 10 times now.

Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:26:02 -0700, david
<david@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
>Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
> I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
>launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
>
>Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
>not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?


If the Vista Upgrade Advisor fails to show you any results, I would
think seriously about getting a NEW machine which is definitely Vista
Compatible, since yours apparently isn't compatible enough to run
properly in WMCE.

Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the original thread and newsgroup.
---------------------------------------------------------

"david" wrote:

> I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
> Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
> I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
> launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
>
> Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
> not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?

I amhaving the xame problem now on my Dell XPS 600 running Windows XP
Professional. The program worked in the past but no more. It keeps
scanning without showing results.

I have the same problem. Vista Upgrade advisor hangs and never
completes. It doesn't lock up the machine, but it never completes. And
I'm not using MCE on this machine, so it's not a media center issue.


david wrote:

> I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
> Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
> I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
> launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
>
> Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
> not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?

If I understand you correctly... your assumption is that my machine isn't
compatible with Vista, because the Advisor doesn't ever complete. I'm
guessing you are incorrect in your assumption. Microsoft wouldn't release an
upgrade tool like this that would not finish if the system was
incompatible... what's the point in that?

I will continue to wait for a more reasonable answer than get a new system.

"Donald L McDaniel" wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:26:02 -0700, david
> <david@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
> >Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
> > I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
> >launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
> >
> >Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
> >not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?
>
>
> If the Vista Upgrade Advisor fails to show you any results, I would
> think seriously about getting a NEW machine which is definitely Vista
> Compatible, since yours apparently isn't compatible enough to run
> properly in WMCE.
>
> Donald L McDaniel
> Please reply to the original thread and newsgroup.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>

I had a similar problem some time ago, I checked the event viewer which
showed net framework errors, so I did a 'oh what the hell' and
uninstalled/reinstalled framework and that fixed it.

"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4531482A.2070308@neo.rr.com...
>I have the same problem. Vista Upgrade advisor hangs and never completes.
>It doesn't lock up the machine, but it never completes. And I'm not using
>MCE on this machine, so it's not a media center issue.
>
>
> david wrote:
>
>> I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
>> Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my
>> machine. I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system,
>> and have launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
>>
>> Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it
>> is not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?

That is not the problem. I have the same problem as the original
poster, and the machine is brand new, just built last month (Core 2 Duo
with Intel 965 chipset), and I ***KNOW*** that every single component of
this new machine is specifically vista compatible. But for me, as was
the case with the OP on his system, the upgrade advisor hangs and simply
never completes. There is a bug in the upgrade advisor; there is some
hardware or (more likely, I think) software component that it doesn't
handle correctly.

[And while the OP was using XP MCE, this system is running XP Pro, not MCE.]


Donald L McDaniel wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:26:02 -0700, david
> <david@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
>>Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
>>I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
>>launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
>>
>>Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
>>not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?
>
>
>
> If the Vista Upgrade Advisor fails to show you any results, I would
> think seriously about getting a NEW machine which is definitely Vista
> Compatible, since yours apparently isn't compatible enough to run
> properly in WMCE.
>
> Donald L McDaniel
> Please reply to the original thread and newsgroup.
> ---------------------------------------------------------

David, since there are now THREE people responding having the same
problem that you had, it's clear to me that there is a real problem.
It's not just you. It's not even just you and me.


david wrote:

> If I understand you correctly... your assumption is that my machine isn't
> compatible with Vista, because the Advisor doesn't ever complete. I'm
> guessing you are incorrect in your assumption. Microsoft wouldn't release an
> upgrade tool like this that would not finish if the system was
> incompatible... what's the point in that?
>
> I will continue to wait for a more reasonable answer than get a new system.
>
> "Donald L McDaniel" wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:26:02 -0700, david
>><david@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
>>>Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
>>>I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
>>>launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
>>>
>>>Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
>>>not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?
>>
>>
>>If the Vista Upgrade Advisor fails to show you any results, I would
>>think seriously about getting a NEW machine which is definitely Vista
>>Compatible, since yours apparently isn't compatible enough to run
>>properly in WMCE.
>>
>>Donald L McDaniel
>>Please reply to the original thread and newsgroup.
>>---------------------------------------------------------
>>

Barry...

I think three is considered to be a quarum... now if we could get someone to
assist us with a solution there'd be three more happy people in the world.

I tried the uninstall/re-install of the framework as mentioned by Michael on
your thread, but that did not solve my issue.


"Barry Watzman" wrote:

> David, since there are now THREE people responding having the same
> problem that you had, it's clear to me that there is a real problem.
> It's not just you. It's not even just you and me.
>
>
> david wrote:
>
> > If I understand you correctly... your assumption is that my machine isn't
> > compatible with Vista, because the Advisor doesn't ever complete. I'm
> > guessing you are incorrect in your assumption. Microsoft wouldn't release an
> > upgrade tool like this that would not finish if the system was
> > incompatible... what's the point in that?
> >
> > I will continue to wait for a more reasonable answer than get a new system.
> >
> > "Donald L McDaniel" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:26:02 -0700, david
> >><david@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
> >>>Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
> >>>I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
> >>>launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
> >>>
> >>>Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
> >>>not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?
> >>
> >>
> >>If the Vista Upgrade Advisor fails to show you any results, I would
> >>think seriously about getting a NEW machine which is definitely Vista
> >>Compatible, since yours apparently isn't compatible enough to run
> >>properly in WMCE.
> >>
> >>Donald L McDaniel
> >>Please reply to the original thread and newsgroup.
> >>---------------------------------------------------------
> >>
>

I have the same problem on my pentium 4, xp home edition sp2. I have ALL the
windows updates until today, all of them, and this stupid program just won't
finish the scan it continues on and on for hours, I've let it run a whole day
and it never stopped scanning!

"david" wrote:

> I launched Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my Dell Inspiron 9300 with
> Windows MCE 2005 and it does not finish to show me the results of my machine.
> I have uninstalled and installed it multiple times on my system, and have
> launched this tool @ least 10 times now.
>
> Are there any ideas on how to get this application to finish? Or if it is
> not compatible with Windows Media Center Edition 2005?