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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: UnknownID on January 10, 2005, 04:04:43 pm

Title: What Is The Best Method For Updating?
Post by: UnknownID on January 10, 2005, 04:04:43 pm

What is the best method for updating media center from one release to the next (i.e. 11.0.123 to 11.0.124)? Should I install over top of the first install or should I run the uninstaller and remove all registry entries (but keep the library files) and then run the new installer? Is one of these methods better while in the beta testing stages while different for post beta testing? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Regards,
UnknownID

Title: Re: What Is The Best Method For Updating?
Post by: Omni on January 10, 2005, 04:27:55 pm

Just install new on top of old.  No need to uninstall generally.  (There are exceptions, though. :P)

Title: Re: What Is The Best Method For Updating?
Post by: modelmaker on January 10, 2005, 10:42:50 pm

Always backup the library somewhere safe in any case.

Title: Re: What Is The Best Method For Updating?
Post by: hit_ny on January 11, 2005, 02:45:02 am

I uninstall the previous (but keep the library).

Then install the new one. I dont do a custom install so its pretty much dbl click installer till its done.

Its good practice to backup the library to a different partition than the one MC is installed.