The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment solution Accelerator is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that will find computers on a network and determine if they are ready to run the Windows Vista operating system. The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment provides detailed analysis on hardware and device compatibility for Windows Vista. The tool also provides the option to check for updates to the compatibility data. The analysis identifies which computers are already ready for Windows Vista migration and identifies the computers that could be ready for migration to Windows Vista after hardware upgrades. The tool identifies and recommends hardware upgrades, but does not recommend costly hardware upgrades, such as CPU upgrades. The analysis also determines which hardware devices have device drivers available on the Windows Vista installation DVD, which hardware drivers can be downloaded from Windows Update, and devices which require contacting the manufacturer to obtain a device driver.
.NET Framework 2.0 is required to install the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment
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