Can you upgrade RC1 to RC2?

[Just Bob]

I have the RC2 disk: Is it supposed to be able to upgrade RC1 or will it
only clean install over or next to?

 

[Jane C]

Upgrade is supported. Start the process from your RC1 desktop, not by
booting with the DVD.

 

[Guest]

Just did an upgrade to RC2 from RC1 and it worked (took much longer then
clean install).

Jeff

 

[Guest]

Would an install upgrade be better than a clean install if RC1 is working
fine but a clean install of RC2 caused problems?

 

[Guest]

Hi Pippin,

The only reason I did the upgrade and not a clean install was because I had
installed other programs in Vista and didn't want to re-install them. I guess
if you only had Vista installed, a clean install would be faster/bette.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

Thank you Jeff deep down I knew a clean install is the best which is why I
did this when RC2 was released but then had the problems as it definitely
didn't run as smoothly as RC1 is running atm. RC1 is a lot smoother for me
plus I think even better since I re-installed. I hate anything to beat me but
I definitely had preformance issues with RC2 plus the fact my screen
resolution was back to beta2 whereas RC1 has this set perfectly.

I am tempted to try again for a complete clean install my drawbck is
installing Office 2007 + One Note + the Tech refresh and then set all my
accounts up again. I will have to try and work out why RC2 which was meant to
have bugs fixed gave me more issues than any of the previous versions - 'bad
hair' day last weekend for Vista and me

Will have to seriously consider especially when RC1 is working so nicely.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Jeff deep down I knew a clean install is the best which is why I
did this when RC2 was released but then had the problems as it definitely
didn't run as smoothly as RC1 is running atm. RC1 is a lot smoother for me
plus I think even better since I re-installed. I hate anything to beat me but
I definitely had performance issues with RC2 plus the fact my screen
resolution was back to beta2 whereas RC1 has this set perfectly.

I am tempted to try again for a complete clean install my drawback is
installing Office 2007 + One Note + the Tech refresh and then set all my
accounts up again. I will have to try and work out why RC2 which was meant to
have bugs fixed gave me more issues than any of the previous versions - 'bad
hair' day last weekend for Vista and me

Will have to seriously consider especially when RC1 is working so nicely.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Jeff deep down I knew a clean install is the best which is why I
did this when RC2 was released but then had the problems as it definitely
didn't run as smoothly as RC1 is running atm. RC1 is a lot smoother for me
plus I think even better since I re-installed. I hate anything to beat me but
I definitely had performance issues with RC2 plus the fact my screen
resolution was back to beta2 whereas RC1 has this set perfectly.

I am tempted to try again for a complete clean install my drawbck is
installing Office 2007 + One Note + the Tech refresh and then set all my
accounts up again. I will have to try and work out why RC2 which was meant to
have bugs fixed gave me more issues than any of the previous versions - 'bad
hair' day last weekend for Vista and me

Will have to seriously consider especially when RC1 is working so nicely.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Just Bob]

Hi Pippin,

The only reason I did the upgrade and not a clean install was because I
had
installed other programs in Vista and didn't want to re-install them. I
guess
if you only had Vista installed, a clean install would be faster/bette.

Me, I wanted to give the upgrade the chance, and it worked OK. I have the
default printer problem but it appears to be solved by putting inserting a
"z" before the printer I want to be the default. It did take a long time to
upgrade but I'm not sure how long. It had to reboot about five times and
since I have a BIOS password it would not continue until I entered the
password. So my upgrade too about six hours.