{"id":256,"date":"2014-02-12T23:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T04:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2014-02-12T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T04:52:10","slug":"solution-windows-vista-in-place-upgrade-fails-when-powershell-is-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-windows-vista-in-place-upgrade-fails-when-powershell-is-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLUTION: Windows Vista In-Place Upgrade fails when PowerShell is installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s quick and easy. \u00a0On multiple occasions, I&#8217;ve encountered problems with Windows Vista performing an in-place upgrade (in situations where conventional repairs are not sufficient and such measures are necessary) if the client&#8217;s machine has Windows PowerShell installed. \u00a0PowerShell is listed as incompatible with the upgrade procedure by the Setup process. \u00a0Usually, it&#8217;s as easy as removing it via <em><strong>Control Panel &gt; Programs and Features &gt; Turn Windows features on or<\/strong><strong> off<\/strong><\/em>, but on more than one occasion, when a workstation is really screwed up, this process fails.<\/p>\n<p>In those cases there are two other options you can try. \u00a0The first is to head to Programs and Features, choose\u00a0<strong>View installed updates<\/strong>, and remove <strong>Windows Management Framework Core<\/strong>, which is the update associated with PowerShell. \u00a0If this STILL doesn&#8217;t fix it, however, there&#8217;s one surefire way to do so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simply <em>rename\u00a0<\/em>the directory <strong>%SYSTEMROOT%\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\u00a0<\/strong>(where %SYSTEMROOT% is the system environment variable for the Windows directory).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This easy workaround will allow the upgrade to proceed, which will usually fix most serious problems with a Vista installation and pave the way for updates and other corrections before wrapping up the work. \u00a0It&#8217;s just another way I&#8217;ve been able to avoid a reinstallation of Windows under circumstances which would normally seem to suggest it as the only option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s quick and easy. \u00a0On multiple occasions, I&#8217;ve encountered problems with Windows Vista performing an in-place upgrade (in situations where conventional repairs are not sufficient and such measures are necessary) if the client&#8217;s machine has Windows PowerShell installed. \u00a0PowerShell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-windows-vista-in-place-upgrade-fails-when-powershell-is-installed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}