Upgrade of Windows 7 Beta to RC and RTM to require some mucking about

If this works well, then a lot of people will want to do it, including me. But a couple weeks ago I asked a well-known Windows expert if it can be done. He said, Even if you could do it, you wouldnt want to. Too many chances for big-time problems. So Ill be interested in how it goes for Paul and other pioneers in the weeks following this method of upgrade.

http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/acai-optimum-review-does-acai-optimum-work-1956015.html

Hi to the first commentor, you are wrong because the build 7100 IS an official RC build, not beta.

And since you are commenting on 4th May, I suppose that either you are an MSDN subscriber or sort, you have downloaded it through leaked torrents.

The author here is saying an upgrade from beta such as build 7000, or 7022, 7048, 7057 and so on. I am wondering if such technique can modified as 6519. Since that was the first ever leaked build of Windows 7. (So that users of pre-beta can do a direct upgrade despite who is still using that!)

So you managed the upgrade without editing cversion.ini? Odd - I had to do it each time I upgraded from the public beta to the RC - and that's the procedure they outlined in the Engineering Windows 7 blog.

hI oRIN,
I found this to be incorrect.
I upgraded my machine from Build 7100 to the RC only by completing step 1 that was outlined from that blog Orin. (Not sure if it being Build 7100 made all the differnce as that was the last beta build prior to the RC)
I am typing this on that very machine right now (while at 34K feet on a cross counrty flight :))

The upgrade was competley painless, took all of about 20 - 25 mins from the USB stick.