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Introduction |
Windows 7 beta has been available since January 2009 and
many of us have been running it on our main workstations
and laptops that we use daily.
We got amazed with the exceptional performance of
Windows 7 Beta and its application compatibility. Now that
Windows 7 Release Candidate became available for MSDN &
TechNet Subscribers on the 30th of April, and publicly
available for everyone else on the 5th of May 2009. We
expect to upgrade our existing installations of Windows
7 Beta to Windows 7 Release Candidate. Unfortunately, if
you tried to do this, your will be faced with a
compatibility report stating that its not possible to
upgrade from this prerelease version of Windows 7 ( read
the summary and the related article at the end of this
article to know the reason) . In
this article, I will be showing you how to successfully
tweak Windows 7 RC setup installation files, so that you
have a successful in-place upgrade of your current installation of Windows 7 beta
to Windows 7 RC.
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If you have tried to upgrade your current build
of Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 Release Candidate
you will receive a Compatibility Report page where
it stated to you that you can not have an in-place
upgrade from this prelease version of Windows 7.
You will only be able to do a Custom (advanced)
installation of Windows 7 Release Candidate. But
what if I want to perform an Upgrade installation,
where I want to keep
my files, settings and programs. The following steps
will show you how to tweak the setup files, so that
you have a successful
in-place upgrade from Windows
7 beta to Windows 7 RC.
- I have download Windows 7 Release Candidate
ISO file and burned it to a DVD. Follow my
article for step by step instructions :
- Once the image is burned to the DVD, copy
the content of the DVD
to a folder on your machine. I have copied the
content to a folder called
win7 rc on
my laptop's D partition
- Open the sources folder,
and then using notepad, open
Cversion.ini, and replace
MinClient=7077.0
with MinClient=7000.0
save the updated file to the same
location and then run setup.exe
to start Windows 7 RC upgrade process
- User Access Control will ask you if you
allow the setup to run or not, click Yes.
- Click on Install Now
- Setup will Start
- If you want to receive the latest updates
for Windows 7 RC before installing it, then
simply click on the first option to Go
online to get the latest updates for
installation (recommended)
- Accept the license terms by selecting the
checkbox beside I accept the license
terms and then click on Next
- On the Installation type screen, choose
whether you want to upgrade your current Windows
7 Beta, or you want to have a clean installation
of Windows 7 RC. I will be performing an Upgrade
installation, as I want to keep my files,
settings and programs. So click on
Upgrade
Just a reminder, if you didn't make the changes
with the Cversion.ini file, you would have by
now received this page after you've click on
Upgrade.
- This time, the compatibility check will run
and will allow upgrade process to continue
normally without any interruption .
- Upgrading your Windows 7 Beta will start
....
- Once installation is complete, you will be
asked to enter Windows 7 RC Product key ( its
the same as Windows 7 Beta ). If you already
have it, type it and click Next,
if you do not have any product key, then simply
click on the Next Button, where later you can
enter the product key and activate the product.
- To keep your system up to date, choose the
first option , Use Recommended Settings
, to install important
and recommended updates
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Review your data and time settings, update
them if required, then click Next
That's it..... Windows 7 Beta has been
successfully upgraded to Windows 7 Release
Candidate.... Enjoy it !!!!!!
Summary
Plenty of us enjoyed running Windows 7 beta on
our main workstations and laptops. Now that Windows 7
Release Candidate is available, plenty of us will try to
upgrade their existing Windows 7 beta installations.
Unfortunately, this can not be done if you directly
tried to run Windows 7 RC setup !! Microsoft has its own
reasons for this, as there were plenty of unofficial builds of Windows 7 available
through Torrents before the official release of
the Release Candidate build , and
Microsoft wanted users to have a Clean upgrade of
Windows 7 RC. But if you are like me, running the
official Beta of Windows 7 and want to directly upgrade
to the official build of Windows 7 RC, then follow the
steps shown in this article to be upgrade to have an
in-place upgrade from beta to RC without any
interruption. Enjoy Windows 7 and will be awaiting RTM
.....
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