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I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit final RTM version (I have a Microsoft Partner account) and let me tell you about my experience. First, normally Windows 7 will not upgrade Windows 7 RC. You have to modify one file before it will allow you to do the upgrade. For information about which file to modify, click here. The procedure is pretty easy and you only have to modify one file.

So I had Windows 7 RC, which is the ultimate version, already installed on my main home computer and my laptop now for several months. I have a lot of programs that are installed on my computers and having to do a clean install of Windows 7 and then to reinstall and setup all of my programs usually takes about a week. I don’t have the time to do a clean install right now, even thought a clean install is the best way to install a new operating system.

Well, the upgrade procedure went pretty smooth. I told the upgrade wizard to check for updates before installing. The procedure did reboot my computers several times. After the install, all of my programs and hardware still

I recently installed a new hard drive on my computer at work and installed the final version of Windows 7 Ultimate. Let me inform you how the install went and any problems I encountered.

First this was a clean install on a new hard drive. I also used the final RTM version of Windows 7 Ultimate (I have a MSDN Subscription) and the 64 bit version on an HP hw8600 Workstation. The computer has a quad processor running at 3 GHz. It also has 8 Gigs of RAM and a 1.5 Terabyte 10,000 RMP hard drive. The computer itself is about 7 months old and I previously had installed Windows Vista 32 bit Ultimate. Vista x32 was a dog on the computer and I was getting to hate the computer because it was so slow. At times it would take almost 30 minutes for Visual Studio to load up my website project.

Anyway, along with the install. Installing Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as a new install went pretty smooth. The