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Most Qgis installers for Windows do not do an update in place.
Instead they install an additional version of Qgis. This allows you
to keep running an earlier version of Qgis at the same time as the
newer one. This might be helpful in some cases, but because it's
atypical of most Windows programs, it is confusing the first time
you encounter this. The desktop or taskbar icon for your previous
version remains connected to the old version. You have to create a
new shortcut to access the new version. Once you are satisfied that
the new version hasn't broken any functionality you need, just go
ahead and uninstall the old version and delete any shortcuts you
have created.<br>
Beware that in some cases a newer version of Qgis will write a
project file that is not backwards compatible. If you open an old
project, you will be warned that saving it will render old versions
unable to open it.<br>
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On 10/27/2022 2:40 PM, Sebastian Gutwein via Qgis-user wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">I find that windows will open the version I
installed but continue to say the previous version when I open
it by searching windows. In my case it says 3.18 but opens
3.26. Could this be happening to you? <br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 4:40
PM krishna Ayyala via Qgis-user <<a
href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello,
<div>I have QGIS 3.20 version. I was planning on updating to
the latest version without uninstalling the current
version. I have downloaded and installed "OSGeo4W
Installer" from the following webpage. The QGIS did not
update to 3.26 version. My QGIS is still 3.20 version. Can
anyone please help me fix this?</div>
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