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Monday, October 26, 2009

How to Upgrade to Windows 7 Retail from the Beta or Release Candidate [Windows 7]

Nuttige info als je aan de Beta of RC wenst te upgrade, natuurlijk het zou beter zijn als zij (MS) kon doen wat in de Linux wereld normaal is en gewoon in een package manager upgraden met een paar klikjes van de muis ;-)

Hello, early adopter—your eyes might've glazed over during the Windows 7 launch because you've been on that train for months now. This is for you: how to upgrade that Windows 7 release candidate to a final version, easy.

Basically, copy of all of the files from the retail disc to a folder on your hard drive, pop open the "sources" directory in that folder, and open up the file called "cversion.ini" in Notepad. Change the number 7233 to read 7000 (you're telling it the minimum version that's allowed to upgrade). Save it, and now you can do an upgrade install. You might see some slight wonkiness, but Max PC says they've had some "good results" this way. [Maximum PC]

Send an email to matt buchanan, the author of this post, at matt@gizmodo.com.