Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Ex_Brit said:

Shawn,

The Win 7 Upgrade Advisor is no longer available. So the Tute maybe needs a few words changing.
The other upgrade tute's mention it too.

I suppose one could run the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant as the system isn't really too different under the hood.


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Hey Peter,

Nar, the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor is still available. Link updated in tutorial. :)

We have a separate tutorial at Eight Forums for the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant.

Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant - Download and Run

Yes I realise that but this is what I get when I click the 7 one (it's been like that for a while):

We're unable to complete your request

Microsoft account is experiencing technical problems. Please try again later.

It's not vital but someone asked me about it.

The 8.26 MB Windows7UpgradeAdvisorSetup.exe file downloaded for me?

Did you uncheck all the other options?

OMG sorry, it's Firefox 33 dagnabbit...works fine in IE or Chrome. I wonder why I keep getting that MS "I'm sorry" page in FF?

Microsoft getting rid of the competition??

He he....I wonder if it's something to do with SSL3 - I think it's disabled now in FF. Will have to research how to turn it back on.

Yep - I downloaded a FF add-on called SSL Version Control and set it to minimum TLS 1.2 and that enables SSL v3 - restarted FF and now it works... Hopefully this will help others who may encounter the same difficulties. Trust Microsoft to use a questionable security mechanism for their downloads. Sigh. Thanks.

I'm surprised that it's not already built-in to FF, but maybe with the next release.

Maybe, I couldn't find the settings in the usual places.

Glad you found it again ;-)