Windows 7 Upgrade Hacks

18 November 2009 25 Comments

This video covers two hacks to get around Windows 7 upgrade limitations. One is a hack that lets you upgrade from the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Beta version) and the other hack allows you to upgrade to a downgraded Windows Edition (ex. Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional).

Tags: Hacks, Upgrade, Windows

25 Responses to “Windows 7 Upgrade Hacks”

Yadvinder007 18 November 2009 at 11:47 am #

excellent hack thx
Boonchocks 18 November 2009 at 12:20 pm #

excellent hacks. nice.
slow421 18 November 2009 at 12:41 pm #

To answer my own question,

Changed EditionId to HomePremium
and ProductId to “Windows Vista tm Home Premium” Notice the space between Home and Premium in productId.

This worked! and installation and activation went fine with windows 7.
Giga1337 18 November 2009 at 1:34 pm #

Great video as always keep it up
BeatlesFan32 18 November 2009 at 1:59 pm #

yea :/
slow421 18 November 2009 at 2:42 pm #

did not work for me.
Changed regedit for currentversion from Business to home and tried from upgrade DVD, still met with “no you cannot”. not sure if I am still required to copy the entire image to harddrive and change the cversion aswell. Any help?
PrinceBerzelius 18 November 2009 at 3:31 pm #

silly question: I have Resident evil 5, Witcher, DMC4 and Grid installed on my XP, but I want to upgrade to W7 ..is it possible that the registry would remain intact so I can play them *after* the upgrade? (I think it’s a slim chance…but it can’t hurt to ask…)
Boonchocks 18 November 2009 at 3:43 pm #

awesome.
ikcti 18 November 2009 at 4:09 pm #

WTF… If I can upgrade from RC to 7 then I wasted my money…
xXxskayaxXx 18 November 2009 at 5:07 pm #

thank you for sharing this with us,mate.nice one!
MrComingsoon2009 18 November 2009 at 5:25 pm #

that was a very nice video i love it nice ideas wow very good
xCookieHermitx 18 November 2009 at 5:28 pm #

I didn’t say it was a bad thing..T-T
I just didn’t know he shared ‘hacking’ with us.
dgenx210 18 November 2009 at 6:01 pm #

yes you can… google it up…
6ford 18 November 2009 at 6:27 pm #

“Hacking” is not a negative things. “hacking” a computer basically means helping a computer to your advantage. “CRACK” is when you “modify” or harm a computer, to be malicious and destructive towards a computer, witch would illegal. Just thought I would share, haha
Jiraya12345 18 November 2009 at 7:23 pm #

Can you do a clean install of 7 if you only buy the upgraded version?
dk9494hl 18 November 2009 at 7:54 pm #

i know this question has nothing to do with the video. but what video editor do u use to do the cool text flying into the screen and the screen captures in idividual frames on the screen. sorry if that didnt make sence
SexiShellyy88 18 November 2009 at 8:43 pm #

really couldn’t feel more lonely than i already am right now
MD4RR 18 November 2009 at 9:40 pm #

your great friend
AQHackAQ 18 November 2009 at 10:19 pm #

Lol then you’re not familiar with computer
xCookieHermitx 18 November 2009 at 10:58 pm #

i didnt know u hacked.. o.o
71127695 18 November 2009 at 11:56 pm #

cool!!
morketh 19 November 2009 at 12:52 am #

a simple uninstall reinstall does not work?
FAFeternal 19 November 2009 at 1:30 am #

Were did you get your wallpaper ? Its awesome and thanks for the vid but can u make one to downgrade from Vista home premium too XP ? i would really appreciate that
klubaz 19 November 2009 at 1:38 am #

can i use this if i want to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate from windows vista home premium?? :O
gigafide 19 November 2009 at 2:32 am #

if you upgrade and still get bluescreens, then it’s obviously not a problem with Windows…it’s a problem with the software that u have installed. probably a bad driver or something. don’t blame Windows for someone else’s crappy software.