Following up on the recent Gearhead column on Virtual CD, reader Dale Wisler wrote that he needed the software “only occasionally to convert some copyright-protected Windows Media files to MP3.

Virtual Drive software is one of the best alternatives to DVDs and other physical storage drives we’ve been using. As the name suggests, it’s a virtual drive wherein you can mount data, store it, ...

OK, I’m back to my theme of CD and DVD creation and management tools that I delayed for a week while I discussed some cool new hardware. First, a couple of corrections: Last week I wrote that the ...

Does anybody have any experience with installing software on Virtual PC that has the CD-cops protection scheme? After I install and try to launch the program for the first time, the CD starts spinning ...