Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs Forum

I downloaded the free Win 10 64-bit iso and installed it on an HP dc5700 microtower. When I tried installing a PCIe card, I got "This system only supports SDVD/ADD2 cards in the x16 slot". Google turned up nothing in the way of an answer. Anyone know it?

Also, when I tried using themes and such, it said I couldn't until Windows was activated. Since 10 is currently free where would I find this activation code and where would I put it?

http://www.engadget.com/products/hp/com ... 700/specs/

I got the same ADD2 error message when I ran Win7 on this machine. I see a bunch of used "Silicon Image Orion ADD-2N dual pad Sil1364 x16 DVI PCI-E Video Cards" on eBay. Would they work?

I agree with you that upgrades are not as good as clean installs. Just have to find a pre-activated copy of Win 10.

What is the point of Pro? I know, you always point to Pro in the past but in Win10 Pro is $40 more for GP Editor, Remote Desktop Server and not much more that I see of use. Additionally it allows a slight delay in some updates. To be honest the Enterprise Edition is the only upgrade I would consider (or the "Education" license if anyone qualifies) and the price is too steep to bother ($$$ + four of the least expensive item in the MS Store). Win7 it is then.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Windows ... ss/Compare

Client Hyper-V?
Bitlocker?

Neither of which I would use or in the case of the latter trust.

The vast majority of most users will never use Group Policy Editor or RDS. Or care to.