Let’s just rip off the Band-Aid and get the bad news out of the way: The standard version of Windows 8 won’t include Windows Media Center or the ability to play DVDs by default. Wait! Put down those ...

NOTE: Many of these VLC tricks use the same dialogs, so rather than repeat the same steps every time, I'll be doing a thorough step-by-step once and then highlighting only the differences in the ...

For most people, VLC media player is just that orange traffic cone you double-click when Windows Media Player refuses to open a file. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but for me, VLC has ...