UpGrade to VISTA & MS Application Compatibility Toolkit

Question

After haveing gone through a lot of driver down load issues and compatible querries,

Can any body advice me if this down load available from Microsoft site called "Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit" would be helpful for a single home desktop computer with a computer not so literate household [father & Mother new to computer with both children are under 8 years old!!]

Thanking you for your advice

Dimension 9200
Intel ViiV Core 2Duo E6400 Processor 2.13GHz 1066 MHz 2MB
Windows XP media Centre Edition 2005 now upgraded to VISTA OS 32bit
Memory:2048 MB Dual DDR2 533 MHz [2x1024]
Dell Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse Dell Wireless Bluetooth
Video Card: 1GB nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual graphics card
Hard Drive: 640 GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x320GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst cache]
16x DVD +/- RW
16x IDE DVD ROM

snowshine · Answer

Hi Rebel9 I see that is no use for me. Thanks for that. [I just thought that MS ACT will find me the necessary driver updates as and when they are updated!!. You can see how much I know of computer!!:smileyvery-happy:]   Your advice is a great help.     snow

Rebel9 · Answer

You can get it here but why do you want it? It (as the article says) is a tool for developers, vendors and IT professionals.

Rebel9 · Answer

No, this tool won't find (or notify you) of driver updates. Your best bet is to make note of the version numbers of all of your currently installed drivers and then check from time to time on the Dell site to see if newer drivers are available and whether or not you need them.   There are a few utilities that you can download from the web that will check on the availability of drivers, but most of them are not free and basically, you can do the same job yourself.

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