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 ...

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 ...

Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

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 ...

It’s been a few months since I last devoted a Hassle-Free to reader questions, and I apologize for being remiss. So this week I help Deborah out with a mysterious DVD drive problem and tell Jim how to ...

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...

The proliferation of streaming services for music, movies, and TV shows might make a DVD drive on a laptop seem superfluous. But anyone with a sluggish internet connection or strict data caps can ...

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, ...