When it comes to computer problems in the office, Murphy's Law often applies – PCs fail when you need them most. If you attempt to install an application from a CD, and the computer does not recognize ...

Reader Karen Evans has been thwarted in an attempt to install software on her Mac. She writes: Over the holidays I passed along an old Mac mini to my son. When setting it up I inserted a CD to install ...

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

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 ...

An ISO file, also known as an ISO image, is a disc image of all the installation files for a single program. Particularly large programs, such as Microsoft Office and the Windows operating system, are ...

I've got a MacBook Pro 17" Core 2 Duo machine here with a very strange problem.<BR><BR>The HD has been wiped blank. It previously had an OS X and a WinXP Bootcamp install on it I believe, but the ...

Certain software programs, especially large ones, are sometimes formatted and made available as ISO files, from Windows itself to applications like Microsoft Office. An ISO file contains all the ...