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Does Anyone Know How to Upgrade to RC1 (Build 7100) from Beta?

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Lavarin   06-26-2009 at 12:39:36 PM

What the title says. I can just install over my beta copy of Windows 7, right? I only ask because my copy says it will expire on July 2, 2009. :( Help me retain my Windows 7 experience please. :D

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mi1ez   06-26-2009 at 12:52:49 PM
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It'll be a clean install. there's no direct upgrade path from beta to RC.

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captaincharisma   06-26-2009 at 03:37:43 PM
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Microsoft never made an option nor recommended at all during the testing phase of windows 7 to upgrade it over previous version.

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theholylancer   06-26-2009 at 04:40:26 PM
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no program/setting will survive if you simply install it over

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MomoCC   06-29-2009 at 04:15:43 AM
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Crud, was about to ask the same question. Thanks guys! Just to be clear, there's also no such thing as a RC to final version upgrade right?

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robyngwie   06-29-2009 at 09:54:41 AM
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hi it is possible to upgrade beta to RC, copy all data of your windows 7 in to hard drive then open folder sources find cversion open it with notepad and the change MinClient=7077.0 to MinClient=7000.0, save it and run instalation file afther that choose upgrade...........

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Ahslan   06-29-2009 at 07:47:08 PM
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^This works...microsoft doesnt want you to do this because they get better feedback if the install is a clean install...but so far, I havent ran into any problems...didnt have to reinstall any of my programs :)

I did this to upgrade from 7077 to RC...once edited, I simply ran the upgrade using daemon tools...didnt even have to burn a dvd...

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captaincharisma   06-30-2009 at 02:58:38 PM
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no MS just didn't start testing the upgrade option. there just trying to get the OS finalized first

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