Windows Vista capable computer (See details).?

Question

Where and/or how can I found out if all the devices that are connected to my computer now (Windows XP) are going to be compatible with Windows Vista?

Answer 1

Do your home work before buying Vista and save yourself a lot of problems you could even do a search on here.

Don't under any circumstance buy the Basic home version it will do nothing at all. Vista will not run some of MS software let alone other software,
you will need a high end computer to run Vista home premium version
1 gig of memory
grapghics card memory 128 meg
Aero compatable
hdd 40 gig
hdd free space 15 gig
DVD rom
Audio out put device
internet connection to register

For a better option do some home work and look into Linux windows opperating system, it is more secure, more stable, it is Free, along with all the software you will ever need, all free to download
there are many versions of Linux
check out the websites below.

Answer 2

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx

Go here and download the "upgrade advisor". It will tell you if anything about your system will have any issues, so you can decide whether or not to upgrade.

BUT! Make sure you have a decent system to run Vista. If you put Vista on a machine designed for Windows XP, it'd be like putting XP on a machine designed for Windows 95. It will run like crap.

This is tomorrow's software, so it requires tomorrow's hardware to run properly. I have Vista Ultimate, and it has been a blessing. I love it more than anything else in my life. More than my girlfriend, even. More than Ranch Dressing. But I have an new nVidia motherboard, a new Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 512MB ATI graphics card.

Vista was designed to run on dual-core processor systems, with big RAM (at least 2GB), and a good graphics card (at least 128MB or 256MB). This has become the standard hardware in PC's today...so don't expect an awesome experience using a "Pentium" processor and 1GB of RAM. The Pentium line is dead.

Answer 3

1. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx
2. Click on "Can your current PC run Windows Vista?"
3. Download, install, and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor
This will tell you what devices are not compatible.

Answer 4

The Vista HCL (hardware compatibility list)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/ed1e3b7d-5ea7-4ad3-be3f-af29f7b48dde1033.mspx?mfr=true

Answer 5

Vista upgrade adviser.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx

Answer 6

if your adding vista on to your computer it uses all the same drivers that have been installed, if you want to back up your drivers goto - http://www.shannonsidecomputers.com/tools.htm and at th end you will see a program called driver backup or somthing like that, that will put all your drivers onto a disk and when you install vista if anything is missing put in the disk

Best of luck

Seanie

Answer 7

Almost everything is the sims might not work but that is all i know of.

Answer 8

go here and good luck

http://www.pcpitstop.com/vistaready/default.asp