Upgrading to Boot Camp 5.0 from 4.1: Would it require a re-install of Windows (Win7 SP1)?

I have a Late 2012 Mac Mini (OS X 10.8.3) with Boot Camp 4.1 and Windows 7 SP1 installed. I mainly work on Win7 and would like to continue doing so. My question is: Would upgrading to Boot Camp 5.0 require me to re-install my Win7 or does it work like a simple update? I certainly do not want to waste any time having to re-install my copy of Windows and all my content as it is working fine, but would like to install the latest Boot Camp drivers if it is no problem doing so.

Thanks mate, update to Boot Camp 5.0 done! Had a issue at first which didn't let me run the update, but this was resolved by downloading (from Apple's support website) and re-installing my (now previous) BC4.1 drivers again. Think it has something to do with the previous BootCamp.msi file that allows the BC4.1 drivers to be uninstalled first before updating to BC5.0. Got that tip from a diffrent question thread on the support website. Anyway, thereafter running the BC5.0 update was no problem. Takes a little while for everything to get fully updated on the next restart, but all good. Cheers.

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