Win7 Upgrade?

Most of the time here if not a full clean install on a fresh primary the custom option sees everything simply rolled up into the Windows.old folder. As far as the Retail 7 not to be seen until next year that will likely replace or even reformat the drive when replacing not upgrading any beta or late RC stages.

On each occasion everything if not using a backup file/settings method sees a fresh install. For games I've been able to simply copy game saves as well as auto saves into a clean install and still see those work.

Device drivers, softwares, games still need to be installed all over. Once 7 is retail you would see that upgrade as you would expect to see with Vista presently. The best install to see however once out is a total drive or partition wipe to start off fresh with a clean install of the new version. No fuss! No worries!

You were fortunate then compared to that usually being a problem unless upgrading from XP or Vista. For another 7 build the installer simply replaces the present install when using the custom option. For going between 32bit and 64bit back and forth then plan a reformat.

I instinctively clean installed 7077, whereas I upgraded 7000 --> 7048 --> 7068....

Oh, an I am about to perform a Vista SP1 --> 7077 (32bit) upgrade here in a matter of minutes....

Let us know how that goes. Upgrading between builds generally means a wipe of custom install to replace seeing the Windows.old folder. You see that anyways with any clean install of 7. Upon a quick install of the now comfirmed Feb. fake 7106 you still see that when browing the partition set up for examination of any new leaks here.

Transferring files, settings, and programs (43%)

Meanwhile I'll have a few quick looks again at the latest whatever since that's already on the "be prepared for fakes" test partition here. The 64bit of whichever I notice always seem to conclude after restarts about one minute faster for some reason.