Last week my colleague Mihaita Bamburic explained how to install the freshly released Windows 8.1 in VMware Player and Workstation, and I wanted to follow that up by showing how to set up the new OS ...

Now that Windows 10 is officially available, there’s a good chance you’ll be updating your existing PCs to the new OS. There are reasons for and against doing this of course. If you’re not quite ready ...

A few months back, I posted an article about setting up a small home server. I’ve been playing around with the setup of that machine lately, and rather than breaking the working system, I’ve been ...

Don’t have a dedicated PC on which to install Windows 8? No problem. Just install the OS virtually on an existing PC using a free virtual machine utility. Various VM applications will let you install ...

Internet Explorer may seem like a forgotten relic for most Mac owners, but for some, old flames die hard. Microsoft’s Web browser quickly faded from popularity on Apple rigs starting in 2003, when ...

I have over seven years of experience covering Microsoft, Surface, Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS news and rumors for sites like Digital Trends and OnMSFT. I also write laptop reviews and how-to guides.

Jack Wallen shows you how to install the latest major release of the VirtualBox virtual machine manager. VirtualBox 7.0 has finally been released, and this latest iteration brings plenty of new ...

If you want to check out the Insiders preview edition of Windows 11, you have a few options on how and where to install it. You can put it on a dedicated or spare PC ...

If you find yourself with a mismatched VirtualBox and VirtualBox Extension Pack release, such that VirtualBox itself cannot resolve, Jack Wallen shows you how to fix this from the command line.