Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether ...

Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies, installing older software, or even for making physical backups. An ...

Physical media, including vinyls, cassettes, and CDs are all the rage right now. If you're looking to dust off your collection of DVDs and put them to use in your Windows PC, getting them playing is ...

I need an external DVD/BR drive for my next computer setup for sure. My next laptop will be an ultrabook (probably Dell's linux lappie, once they come out with a Haswell version), that will never have ...

DVD drives might be a vanishing species, but they are not yet completely extinct. New desktop PCs often include a DVD drive, as do older PCs that have been upgraded to Windows 10. And external USB DVD ...

Question says it all really. they ordered us some dell optiplex gx 260 machines with standard cd rom drives and windows 2000. I dont have administrator rights privledges so i cant install software (ie ...

Apple was one of the first manufacturers to exclude DVD players from its laptops, and the same quickly became true for iMacs as well. This meant that if you wanted to rip CDs for your iTunes library, ...

When you install Windows 8 on your system, you gain access to a number of new features. Some are clear upgrades over previous versions of Windows—the new system-wide search, for instance—while others ...

I’ve messed up at multiple points in my life if I’m relying on a Steam Deck to help me play DVDs. But that’s where I’m at, having gotten rid of practically every device I owned over the past few years ...

First, some fallout from last week’s column, in which we declared that the display of banner advertisements in Quicken 2000 is a huge security issue. The good folks at Intuit, which makes Quicken, ...