Solved Will Windows 8.1 Upgrade Lose Your Calendar Settings?

garison

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I'm currently running Windows 8 that my laptop came with. I decided to wait for the official 8.1 release in October instead of the Preview.
I have a lot of Calendar reminders on my Windows 8 Stock Calendar and I was wondering when I upgrade to 8.1, will those reminders disappear?


I'm asking this because I've been reading a lot of articles that you have to re-install your apps and settings after the update.

Although you probably can't confirm this until it has released (I guess).
Has anyone lost their reminders on when they switched from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 Preview?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro
You can upgrade to Windows 8.1 Preview Pro and keep Windows settings, personal files, and applications from the following Windows operating system editions:


  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8 Pro
  • Windows 8 Pro with Media Center

I'm assuming Preview and RTM are interchangeable in this context and thus application settings should be retained.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    PC-DOS v1.0
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    IBM
    CPU
    Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
    Memory
    16K, 640K max
    Graphics Card(s)
    What's that?
    Sound Card
    Not quite
    Screen Resolution
    80 X 24 text
    Hard Drives
    dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives
Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro
You can upgrade to Windows 8.1 Preview Pro and keep Windows settings, personal files, and applications from the following Windows operating system editions:


  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8 Pro
  • Windows 8 Pro with Media Center

I'm assuming Preview and RTM are interchangeable in this context and thus application settings should be retained.




Thank you so much
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Can you export the calendar reminders just to be safe?
 

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System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro X64
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    Lenovo IdeaCenter K450
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    Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
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    Lenovo
    Memory
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
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    Intel Integrated HD Graphics
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    HP h2207
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    1680x1050@59Hz
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    UEFI/GPT
    PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro
You can upgrade to Windows 8.1 Preview Pro and keep Windows settings, personal files, and applications from the following Windows operating system editions:


  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8 Pro
  • Windows 8 Pro with Media Center

I'm assuming Preview and RTM are interchangeable in this context and thus application settings should be retained.




Thank you so much

You are welcome buddy... can confirm my upgrade from windows 8 to the leaked RTM kept all files and settings ;)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    PC-DOS v1.0
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    IBM
    CPU
    Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
    Memory
    16K, 640K max
    Graphics Card(s)
    What's that?
    Sound Card
    Not quite
    Screen Resolution
    80 X 24 text
    Hard Drives
    dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives
Yes. It is a double-bladed axe, sometimes.
I was planning on a real fresh start. I have customised Windows 8 quite a lot, and had a plane to start over. After installing Windows 8.1, I found it had recovered about 90% of my previous settings. That did include calendar settings and reminders.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Other Info
    Use several different computers during a day, so specs are irrelevant.
Just a word of advice (probably not required but ..), its always good practice to image your old system before applying an upgrade, so should their be a need later, one could then restore that system to before the upgrade and apply the upgrade with the official release 18 Oct...:)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    PC-DOS v1.0
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    IBM
    CPU
    Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
    Memory
    16K, 640K max
    Graphics Card(s)
    What's that?
    Sound Card
    Not quite
    Screen Resolution
    80 X 24 text
    Hard Drives
    dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives
Just a word of advice (probably not required but ..), its always good practice to image your old system before applying an upgrade, so should their be a need later, one could then restore that system to before the upgrade and apply the upgrade with the official release 18 Oct...:)
:ditto:
Taking a full image definitely saved me when I was upgrading to 8...

I had a PC for which Microsoft Update downloaded a duff driver, and as it was coming from XP (and I'd not figured out the workarounds by then) you don't get the option of an ISO download, so I had a broken BSOD'ing PC and no install media.

I was very grateful to be able to go back to the backup image at that point and do it a second time but learning from the issues.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1, 10
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