Update CQ5103UK to Windows 8.1 - bad idea?

I am flirting with the idea of upgrading my office while I'm waiting for Windows 9 coming into the market, but I expect too much from my old machine?

You are the very welcome.

Secure boot is not compatible with any PC which came with the W8.

It's just an additional security feature that is not absolutely necessary.

After all, we lived without him for all these years.

Here is a link to the article from HP regarding what secure boot is.

http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c03653226

Microsoft did not have to pay extra money to include a DVD playing the codec on Windows 8, as they did on Windows 7.

Apparently, they have to pay another company for a license to include DVD playback capabilities.

If play you DVDs on your PC, not having is not the software can be a problem.

You can download and install this HP DVD playing software that does what I used on my HP 8200 Elite CMT PC business office, which came with W7, and I upgraded to W8.1.

http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-127985-1&cc=us&DLC=en&LC=en&OS=4158&product=6550218&sw_lang=

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