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Sep 21, 2009 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

How to upgrade Windows 7 Professional to Windows 7 Ultimate

Tonight I upgraded my laptop from “Windows 7 Professional” to “Windows 7 Ultimate”. I was one of the first people to be downloading Windows 7 from Microsoft on the day Windows 7 was posted to Technet. I downloaded the “ultimate” ISO but I never generated my Software Key for “ultimate”. A Few hours after I started downloading the ISO I went back to the Technet site to find out I could no longer generate the keys. Only Windows 7 Professional was able to be generated.

A week or so later Microsoft turned on the ability to generate the keys again. I wasn’t sure how hard it was going to be to “upgrade” windows to another version so I never looked into any further. I knew from Windows Vista that “Upgrade Anytime” wasn’t really “upgrade anytime”!

Tonight I wanted to try bitlocker so I needed to upgrade the OS. (Read more about Bitlocker). Here’s the steps on how to perform the upgrade very quickly. I believe there are about 2 reboots required. So make sure that you have all programs closed and if you are using a laptop please make sure that it is plugged in.

Go to START – and type “Upgrade Anytime” in the search box.

Tell it to upgrade the software and that you have a key for the new version.

Enter the key and hit upgrade.

Your machine will reboot at least twice.

When it reboots you will be up to date.

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You will also need to activate your copy of Windows even if you had activated the software before.

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