You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

Microsoft dug its roots a little deeper into the music business Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs. The ...

Do you know you can easily burn DVDs using your Windows PC? It hardly takes any time to burn a DVD using your PC, let’s see how. Remember that you can burn a CD or a DVD only if your laptop or desktop ...

Microsoft dug its roots a little deeper into the music business Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs. The ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

When trying to burn CD using Windows Media Player, if you see the Burn to disc button greyed out in the File Explorer, this post will help you resolve it. The problem only happens when you use the ...

A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG--and they're as simple as holding down a computer's Shift key. In a ...

I haven't posted any technical help questions on Ars for ages, but here goes. This is probably 'old tech' for most of you. I have an enormous CD collection and I've been ripping some (more) to MP3 ...

I have a Compaq V2405CA (V2000 series) laptop here that I want to prep to give to a local charity. I can't put any more money into it, so I'm trying to find a cheap way to get a Windows CD for it. It ...