Windows 7 Upgrade

Upgrade Windows 7 from Starter, Home Premium and Professional editions to higher editions with Windows Anytime Upgrade. Windows Anytime Upgrade is designed to upgrade your computer from one edition of Windows 7 to another edition of Windows 7, if you are running an activated copy of Windows 7 on your PC.

Windows 7 Ultimate has all the best features of Windows 7.But what if you are running a Starter or Home Premium or Professional edition of Windows 7 and you wanted to have Windows 7 ultimate? Then you should buy and use Windows Anytime Upgrade. With Windows Anytime Upgrade, you can upgrade from one version of Windows 7 to any other higer version but you cannot downgrade from higer to lower version.

Before upgrading, use Windows 7 Upgrade Installation advisor to find out if you have all the necessary hardware to use specific features of a particular edition of Windows 7.

If after upgrade, you decide to return back to the earlier edition, then you need to do a clean installation of your previous Windows 7 edition. To clean install Windows 7, you need the original edition’s product key.

How to upgrade Windows 7?

To upgrade Windows 7 to higher version, do the following:

• Click Start and type “anytime upgrade” in the search box.
• From the results, click Windows Anytime Upgrade and follow the instructions to upgrade to a new edition of Windows 7. First, click on Go online to choose the edition of Windows 7 that is best for you.

• You will get a list of Windows 7 editions to buy.Once you buy a new version and have an upgrade key, click on Enter an upgrade key and enter the key that you bought.

That is all!!! Once the upgrade is complete, you will have a new edition of Windows 7 running on your computer.

It is however important to note that you can use Windows Anytime Upgrade to upgrade a 32-bit Windows 7 to another 32-bit version or from a 64-bit version to a 64-bit version of Windows 7. However, Windows Anytime Upgrade can’t upgrade a 32-bit version to a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or a 64-bit version to a 32-bit version of Windows 7.

You cannot upgrade Windows 7 on multiple computers with a single upgrade key. You will have to buy seperate Windows Anytime Upgrade keys for every PC (running Windows 7) you intend upgrading.

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