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How To Upgrade To Win7 Retail From The Beta Or RC

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 (hurray no paying for a full version). You might see some slight wonkiness, but Max PC says they’ve had some “good results” this way. [Maximum PC]

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    Raffiki

    Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:51 PM

    so this means that if i do the following and upgrade from RC, windows 7 will not start intermittently shutting down early next year but function like a retail version?

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    JSSR

    Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 8:02 PM

    Your a fool if you follow this. Giz you dissapoint me with this horrid recommendation!

    The issues your likely to run into down the track will far outway the extra cash and time to do a clean install now.

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    Khuntza

    Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM

    And what do you mean no paying for a full version.. surely its gonna ask for a key or to activate at some stage..

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