News Windows 10 won’t run some older CD-ROM games, thanks to DRM SafeDisc and SecuRom DRM schemes are not allowed on Windows 10, which means the games that require it aren't allowed either.

The prices of personal computers and just about everything associated with them have been in a near free fall for some time, and CD-ROM equipment, for years long on promise but too long as well on ...

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In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.

QUESTION: My computer does not recognize my CD drive. It stopped doing this so I thought the CD player was just shot. I put in a new one and got the same result. I switched IDE cables, same result.