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This step-by-step guide serves as general guidance for users upgrading their current Microsoft Windows 7 to Microsoft Windows 8. Please refer to this guide ONLY if you are conducting a compatible upgrade as follows: Microsoft Windows 8 upgrade plan Users will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro from Windows 7 Home Basic , Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Ultimate while maintaining their existing Windows settings, personal files, and applications. Step 1 Preparation Please run Windows Update first before installing the upgrade. (This step will require a connection to the Internet) 1.1 Press Start → All Programs. When the program list shows, find “ Windows Update ” and click to execute. 1.2 Click “ Check for updates ” to download the necessary updates. 1.3 Windows Update is checking u...

Training Document (1): 1. Log on as an administrator. 2. Open the folder C:\Users using Windows Explorer. 3. Click Organize , click Folder and search options and click the View tab 4. Click Show hidden files, folders and drives , and click OK. 5. If the Default user profile folder already exists under C:\Users , rename it to Default.OLD 6. Download w7-default.zip. Unzip the file and extract the contents ("Default"). 7. Move the extracted folder and contents to C:\Users The newly copied Default folder should inherit the permissions from its parent folder, C:\Users . That is, the SYSTEM and Administrators are assigned full control, and "Users" and "Everyone" have Read permissions. You may want to verify if the permissions are assigned correctly. To do so, right-click the folder C:\Users\Default and click Properties, and select the Security tab. Inspect the permission entries there. It’s all set now! Try logging on to the new use...