Those old CD games that have been sitting on your shelf for eternity? Linux can run them.

In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. As ...

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 approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

If something goes horribly wrong with your Windows computer, you may decide to give it a fresh start. Reinstalling the operating system will rectify your problems -- as long as your hardware's OK -- ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...