So you want to try out Windows 8. Excellent! But you’re not foolhardy enough to try using a developer preview build as your main work/play operating system–you just want to dabble. We’ll show you how ...

A disk drive can run as either a master device or a slave device. The master drive does not control or take precedence over the slave drive; rather the master drive acts as the primary device; the ...

In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB ...

Good news, netbook users: There’s a reasonably easy way to install the Windows 7 Release Candidate, even if you don’t have an external DVD drive. As you may recall from yesterday, Windows 7 gets ...

Want to upgrade to an SSD or replace an old SSD on your Windows laptop? These are the things you should know before ...

You can use external hard drives to back up critical business data or add additional storage to a workstation. However, because external storage devices can cost hundreds of dollars, you can reduce ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo shows how you can replace your computer's hard drive with a solid-state drive and be significantly happier with your life. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...

With software size continuing to balloon, many programs take up gigabytes of memory. Combining that with hefty operating system updates and large video files, it’s easy to use up all the internal ...