{"id":536,"date":"2009-08-07T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/07\/windows-7-update-advistor\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:30:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:30:25","slug":"windows-7-upgrade-advistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/07\/windows-7-upgrade-advistor\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you have been living under a rock Windows 7 RTM was made available to Technet and MSDN subscribers yesterday<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed my ISO\u2019s this morning and was thinking about how best to approach the upgrade on <a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/15\/my-new-toy-samsung-nc110\/\">my netbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I then remembered that when Vista was first released there was a tool for letting you know if your system would be up to the task and thankfully there is also a Windows 7 version.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/get\/upgrade-advisor.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/get\/upgrade-advisor.aspx\">Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (Beta)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here a grab of the final report,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"607\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>No major problems. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s suggesting I do a backup as I\u2019ll need to do \u201ccustom install\u201d (i.e a clean install). 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