Upgrading to Windows 7?

Choose the upgrade option while upgrading. Just insert your CD or mount your ISO or whatever, and when it installs click "upgrade" not "custom" or the other option.

Yeah, be careful. Any version of Windows 7 that you got from somebody right now, is not the final version. It is likely the Release Candidate (which will work until June 1st of 2010). You can download it here: http://tinyurl.com/832nco

Currently if you upgrade to the Windows 7 RC, there is no official way to do an "in-place" upgrade to the final version. In-place upgrades are where all your programs and settings all stay there but you change to the new Operating System. If you have Windows 2000, XP, or are running the beta or Release Candidate of Windows 7, you can not do an In-Place upgrade to the final version of Windows 7. Otherwise just choose to do an upgrade when it asks you what you want to do when you boot off of the DVD.

you cant do an upgrade install until 7 is released for general sale, the rc version of 7 must be a clean install which means you will loose any files you have on your pc

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Just choose upgrade during the install process.

If you're putting in the Release Candidate though, remember it still remains in testing so you should back up anything critical first, and as long as you're doing that, you should probably fresh install anyway.