by Shane Grantham | Apr 14, 2024
I’m writing about my many DVD and CD disks I have in my computer office. They are hardly used any more due to the internet and USB thumb drives. In the past they were heavily used to archive my business data, hold computer utilities and install hardware drivers...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 31, 2024
Ten years ago I used DVDs and CDs in my computer business often. I installed programs from them, carried my software utilities on them and saved data to them for clients. Nowadays, I hardly use them at all for clients, but i still carry a USB DVD reader in my...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 30, 2022
I have so many computing devices that I can’t always keep them straight when they have problems. Some times I just live with the problem when I can work around it. Other times I find a solution. Earlier this month I had a weird one happen where the two DVD...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 18, 2017
A recent computer service call involved a Windows 7 computer which wouldn’t play audio DVDs. The owner of the computer would insert the training CDs in the DVD player and a Power DVD program would pop-up with a message. The message said the Power DVD program...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 4, 2016
I was on a Fort Wayne computer service call last month and one of the things they wanted to do was play a CD on their computer, but they were having problems. I tried to eject the tray of the CD/DVD player and it slowly opened. The CD was placed in the tray and...