Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

How to Fix Missing CD/DVD Drives In Windows

This is a problem that crosses my bench several times a year: Bring up My Computer, and your CD or DVD drive is no longer displayed.
There are many reasons for this, but the following three fixes will take care of the majority of cases.

Registry Corruption
This is a well known problem, with a fairly well documented [...]

Tool: HWiNFO32

Alex Verboon pointed out an awesome hardware utility called HWiNFO32.  Decided to go grab it as it looked appealing and looked to be more feature-rich than some other utilities I’ve used to show me hardware information on computers.
WOW.
Great tool.  Many cool features including systray monitoring of sensors, benchmark comparison and some rather detailed information.  Definitely [...]