How to keep your data when upgrading to Win8.1

Computer Store News: With the release of the public preview version of Windows 8.1 at the end of June, many users also want to know how Microsoft plans to handle these system upgrades. At the recent TechEd North America conference, Microsoft officially shared some details at a conference with the theme "Windows RT In Enterprise".

Microsoft officially said that the company plans to deliver a public preview version of Windows 8.1 through the Windows Store on June 26, with the codename "Blue". .

Michael Niehaus, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, said at the "Windows RT In Enterprise" conference that Windows 8 and Windows RT users will receive a Windows Update notification when the Win8.1 preview is available. The Windows Store can provide you with new system bits (64-bit and 32-bit), and you can read the update description and choose whether to install it first.

Once the final version of Windows 8.1 is available, users with the preview version will be able to get a Windows Update and Windows Store notification. Although the user will save your data and account if /choose to install the final version of Windows 8.1, your application needs to be reinstalled.

And even if you have Windows 8.1 Preview installed and then return the device to Windows 8 system, then installing to Windows 8 RTM version /last version also requires reinstalling your application.

Do you want to know which applications need to be reinstalled? This depends mainly on whether you are running Windows on X86 or ARM. On Windows RT devices, Windows Store/Metro-Style apps will need to be reinstalled; on X86-based Windows 8 devices, early adopters will need to reinstall their Windows Store/Metro-Style apps and traditional desktop apps, a statement from Microsoft People say so.

If Windows 8 users don't want to install Windows 8.1 Preview, choose to upgrade directly from Windows 8/Windows RT to Windows 8.1, they will not need to reinstall their apps. All settings, data and applications will continue to be retained. Users can decide for themselves when and whether to upgrade from Windows 8/Windows RT to Windows 8.1, which Microsoft officially emphasizes.

Niehaus said that Windows 8 to 8.1 upgrades are better than Windows 8 beta upgrades to RTM versions " A spokesperson for Microsoft said that the Windows 8.1 update would be able to "upgrade" Windows 7 to Windows 8 upgrades, at least in terms of handling user settings, data and applications.

Niehaus also said at the meeting that Microsoft estimated that Windows 8.1 will take up less space than Windows 8. He claims that the Windows team has spent a lot of effort to clean up old components, temporary files, and improve NTFS compression to reduce disk space. He pointed out that installing Windows 8.1 Preview requires only 4 GB of free space, and Windows 8.1 installation will not replace the recovery partition on Windows 8. “If you delete it, [8.1] will not replace it,” says Niehaus.