How to Upgrade Windows 7 beta to Windows 7 RC 0

I needed to upgrade a beta computer to RC to keep some apps that I did not have time to reinstall. The steps am show here are not the recommended process form Microsoft BUT do work.

1. Copy your Windows 7 RC DVD to your hard drive.

2. Go to the sources directory.

3. Edit the cversion.ini using notepad.

4. You need to  edit  the MinClient build number to a value  to 7000.

5. Save the file with the same name.

Csversion_ini

6. Run the Setup and  you can upgrade your version of windows Beta to Windows RC.

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