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    Windows 7 updates/upgrades

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by lenardg, Apr 5, 2009.

  1. lenardg

    lenardg Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Hi, could someone who has been playing around with Windows 7 a lot clear one thing for me: with all these beta, interim and upcoming RC builds, are you required to reinstall everything all the time from scratch or can you perform an update/upgrade in place where it refreshes your OS?

    I know the clean install is the best idea, but I still would like to know if the update is possible? Beta -> interim, Beta->RC, etc.

    thanks!
     
    lenardg, Apr 5, 2009
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  2. PHOTON690

    PHOTON690 Newbie

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    I am interested in this too in terms of getting my feet wet in Linux/Unix/Ubuntu but I think the general idea is to get the operating system onto a CD or DVD and let your system boot from that or get it onto a separate partition and use some sort of boot manager.
     
    PHOTON690, Apr 5, 2009
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  3. royk50

    royk50 times being what they are

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    i upgraded yesterday from build 7000 to 7057.
    took much longer than clean install, completed successfully.
     
    royk50, Apr 5, 2009
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  4. MDR8850

    MDR8850 Notebook Evangelist

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    nope.... an upgrade from your existing windows 7 build will do....
     
    MDR8850, Apr 5, 2009
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  5. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    If you know the drill, it's really short. Just went from 7057 to 7077 and outside of games & office, took me 35 minutes to complete. The easiest way is to save your full "windows user account" folder.
     
    JCMS, Apr 14, 2009
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