Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor 2.0

3.3 out of 5 stars 3.3 (25 votes)

(October 20, 2009)

Windows 7/Vista/XP / Freeware / 3,079 downloads

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor scans your PC to see if it's ready for Windows 7, and tells you about any known compatibility issues.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    spiked

    Reviewing 2.0 (Oct 21, 2009)

    Works and does what it should. Mac OS X also has an "Advisor." His name is Steve Jobs, and his advice is always that you need to buy a new Mac and new applications. Sure, maybe [Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, ...] and your "ancient" 3-year-old apps will run on your existing Mac, but Apple decided to abandon [Motorola 68000 series CPU architecture, PowerPC architecture, entire Mac OS "Classic" code base, SCSI, Firewire] and you're lucky if Apple gives you just enough backward compatibility to last until your credit card can be charged for all new stuff. Absolute NO software (not a single tiny program) which shipped for the Macintosh in 1985 will run as-is on Snow Leopard. No Advisor needed because the answer is NO, nada, zero, zilch. Meanwhile, Windows 7 will actually run some of the programs which shipped on the PC-DOS version 1 floppy diskette in 1981...totally as-is (no recompile, running as native x86).

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    jmcwb

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta (May 14, 2009)

    I downloaded the "advisor" and installed it on my Vista Home Premium machine, When I tried to run it the first dialog box come up but when I click the start button, nothing happens. I installed it on my old XP laptop and it runs just fine. I'm giving it a one rating since it didn't run on my main vista box.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    LakotaElf

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta (May 11, 2009)

    This software told me my system would run windows 7 very well, with a few software issues, no hardware issues at all. I run windows XP MCE and it kind of surprised me. Needless to say I am pleased with the results. I am going to upgrade to windows 7 when final build is made. I never did install Vista and I am glad I did not waste the money on it now...

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    molumen

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta (May 10, 2009)

    The tool is OK, but does it REALLY need to install itself? They could have created a portable application since it is used only ONE time by 99.9 of the users and uninstalled in about a minute after its first (and last) use...

  5. 2 out of 5 stars
    JCookes

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta (May 8, 2009)

    Since it's a Microsoft "Advisor" I'm pretty sure my system will be decent enough to get Windows 7 (doh).................

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