re: Built-in CD burning in XP - switching the drive where the CD image is stored
Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 3:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael Anttila
(1 messages posted)
Change or create the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\CD
Burning
It is an expandable string that you can point to whatever drive/directory that you
want the temporary data files to be stored in.
HTH,
-Mike
On Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 5:47 pm, Josh Klugman wrote:
>My hard drive has three partitions on it. My D drive--with Windows XP installed
>on it--is running out of space, making it more difficult for me to burn CD-ROMs,
>since there's not enough space to save all the files I want to burn to a 650MB CD-ROM.
> Is it possible for me to tell Windows to store the files on the other partitions
>with more free space available? I have tried to do this by right-clicking on the
>CD burner drive's icon, choosing Properties, clicking on the Recording tab, and
changing
>the drive where Windows will save an image of the CD-ROM, but that doesn't do anything--Windows
>still saves the files I want to burn on the D drive. I'm thinking maybe I need
to
>buy some commercial burning software that will work with XP, but I hope I'm wrong.
>
>Thanks in advance...
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