But yes. I:
1. backed up wallet, and exported private key;
2. Download and unzip New wallet;
3. Deleted Freicoin folder in Appdata (actually I did it a few times, I think you only have to delete the blockchain files);
4. Ran QT;
5. Installed private key;
6. Let in sync.
in my various attempts, I did find that the daemon worked better in step 4.
if you don't delete the blockchain you will have no different result. The point of the new wallet is to access the new blockchain of after soft fork.