Did you know you can make virtual disks on Windows? It’s a cool and underused feature that has been available in the OS since Windows 8. Perhaps you have seen files on your system with the VHD or VHDX ...

Performing a regular disk-cleaning regimen frees up precious storage space and helps keep Windows 10 or 11 operating smoothly. Follow some or all of these steps to get yourself a lean, clean machine.

To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.

How to Rip CDs With Windows 11’s Updated Media Player App. For most readers, this section will only be of interest once Microsoft adds CD ripping to the released version of the OS.

Windows comes with the Disk Cleanup tool, which can delete all kinds of temporary cached files on your PC, such as icons, thumbnails, previously downloaded updates, and so on.

(Image credit: Foxtail) So, which will result from… whatever this is? A quick poke around the disc reveals very little, the tiny included .zip file—not even 7MB in size—simply named "ARPG_C81".

Disk encryption is absolute magic to most non-mathematicians. And like any complex technology, it leads to uncomfortable questions. Does encrypting a disk make it less likely that data can be ...