Proper Way To Upgrade 101

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I currently have Stardock Central and Window Blinds 6.0 installed on my XP Pro machine using Trend-Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2008.

I've had problems in the past upgrading and hope a qualified answer is forth coming.

I have downloaded 6.1 and the current Stardock Central via an email sent to me by Stardock Sales  and have my keys ready to use at install.

I want to know what the proper routine to ugrade to 6.1 would be?

Step by Step Please in prefered order!

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
me, I just archive the version installed for backup
then I download the new straight to archive
then use SDC to do a straight update - if it borks I got both the old and new archived ready to go -


before I started the straight updates = after archiving:
switch to windows luna, unload WB, and then use SDC to uninstall
reboot
open SDC and use to restore the fresh archive of the new version
reboot
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Actually the best way to upgrade is to:

1) Uninstall version 6.0.
2) Reboot
3) Run Stardock's clean software removal utility: http://sd.stardock.com/mike/apps/odnt_zapper.exe
4) Download the setup installed for version 6.1
5) Reboot.

I dont think the uninstalling an old version vis SDC removes the existing version cleanly; and leaves junk behind. It's a good idea to not leave any traces of an old version when installing a new version so the new version doesn't inherit any of the problems that might have existed in the old version.