I am very happy to be writing this bit of Tech info! It seems that Windows XP includes an easy-to-use CD burner that blows away the other programs that we’ve used in the past. The Windows XP CD burning program is so easy to use that not a single one of us will have a good excuse for not backing up our files and clearing stuff off of our K drives. It’s as simple as this:
1. Place a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc in the disc drive of your computer.
2. Wait until a box that looks like the image below pops up. Be patient, it may take a minute or so. Select the option "Open writable CD folder using Windows Explorer."
1. Place a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc in the disc drive of your computer.
2. Wait until a box that looks like the image below pops up. Be patient, it may take a minute or so. Select the option "Open writable CD folder using Windows Explorer."
Check the "Always do the selected
action" box if you don’t want to be
prompted for this again.
3. You should now have a box like the one below.
4. Next, you can drag-n-drop your files to this open window. To do this, simply open the folder where the files that you want to save are located. Typically, these will be somewhere within your K drive. With both of the windows open on your desktop, (you may have to click on the two little boxes at the top right of the window to shrink it so both windows can fit on the desktop), place your mouse curser on the file you want to save to the CD, hold the left mouse button down while dragging it to the CD drive window. The original file will stay in the original folder so you don’t have to worry about the file being deleted when you drag it to the CD window. You can also select and delete files in the CD window if you change your mind about which files to save/burn. If you attempt to place more content on the CD than its capacity allows, you will be notified.
action" box if you don’t want to be
prompted for this again.
3. You should now have a box like the one below.
4. Next, you can drag-n-drop your files to this open window. To do this, simply open the folder where the files that you want to save are located. Typically, these will be somewhere within your K drive. With both of the windows open on your desktop, (you may have to click on the two little boxes at the top right of the window to shrink it so both windows can fit on the desktop), place your mouse curser on the file you want to save to the CD, hold the left mouse button down while dragging it to the CD drive window. The original file will stay in the original folder so you don’t have to worry about the file being deleted when you drag it to the CD window. You can also select and delete files in the CD window if you change your mind about which files to save/burn. If you attempt to place more content on the CD than its capacity allows, you will be notified.
Now that you have all the files that you want to save to the CD, click Write these files to CD in the task bar to the left. The CD Writing Wizard opens and prompts you for a label (name) for the CD. You can add up to 16 characters. Click Next and the wizard displays a progress bar indicating the status.
After a few moments you should see a message that You have successfully written your files to the CD and Do you want to create another CD using the same files? So you can either burn these same files to another CD or click on the finish button and close out of the program.
Hurray! You’ve successfully saved your files to a CD and can now safely delete the original files from your K drive clearing up space for ALL those new documents that will be created in the future.
After a few moments you should see a message that You have successfully written your files to the CD and Do you want to create another CD using the same files? So you can either burn these same files to another CD or click on the finish button and close out of the program.
Hurray! You’ve successfully saved your files to a CD and can now safely delete the original files from your K drive clearing up space for ALL those new documents that will be created in the future.
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