I have a question about How do I use the built-in CD burning in Windows XP?:

On the flip side of this question, how do you disable XP's cd recorder? I use NTI backup software and while backing up, XP's cd recorder says it have files ready to record and I have to cancel that operation so my back up can continue. My back up still works but it's very annoying to have to delete thess files afterward. Any help?

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The built-in CD burning capability is actually easy to use if you forget about the 
previous tools and utilities that have come before.  Assuming everything is installed 
correctly and operational, the basics are as follows:

Data CD

1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Open writable CD folder 
using Windows Explorer" and select the OK option.
3. Drag and drop any folders and files as needed to this window. (Windows is making 
a copy of the data at this time)
4. To write to the CD, select the "Write These files to CD" option in the upper left 
hand options area of Windows Explorer.
5. Wait for the write to complete and chek your work.

Music CD (Disk Copy - kinda)

1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Select media to copy 
to CD using Windows Media Player" and select the OK option.
3. Using the Media Player, select a stored "playlist" to copy to the CD by selecting 
the "Copy to CD or Device" button. (If all you want to fo is copy and existing CD, 
unfortunately, you have to copy[rip] the source music onto disk using the "Copy from 
CD" button first.
4. Once you have selected all the playlists to be copy, press the "Record to CD" 
button in the upper right corner of the Media Player. (The selected tracks will be 
re-convirted to a CD recognizible format and then burned to the CD.)

Note: If making [archive] copies are all you want to do, my mught be better off purchasing 
an XP tested CD utility software program.  

Good burning to you!

-Michael





On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 6:01 pm, m jackson wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do I use the built-in CD burning in Windows XP?:

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If you want to turn off the ability to using the built-in CD burner software that 
comes with WindowsXP:

1. Open up the Explorer 
2. Right click on the drive that is your CD burner 
3. Select Properties 
4. Click on the Recording tab 
5. Uncheck Enable CD recording on this drive 

Bob Cerelli
http://www.onecomputerguy.com





On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 6:01 pm, m jackson wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do I use the built-in CD burning in Windows XP?:

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Ok, follow-up question on this post: I used the CD-burning utility in XP last night to burn 3 cdr's. My intention was to move 1.95 GB (650 mb x 3) of files from my hard drive. When the utility finished writing the data to the cdr I chose to delete the temp files, then closed the utility. I then went into explorer and deleted the files from the original folder location, then cleared out the recycle bin. Here is the problem and the question: The first 2 burns and deletes resulted in almost no gained space - maybe 100 mb. The 3rd burn and delete resulted in eating up 500-600 mb of space on my primary drive - even though I burned and deleted from my D or secondary drive. I have searched for .tmp files, I searched both drives for any files created yesterday to see if I could find the original file names or some big .dmp or .tmp or some other kind of big files that might be stored somewhere hidden. What do I do? I have run Norton utilities, disk defrag, and even clicked on just about every folder on both drives looking for something. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! Matt


On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 9:38 pm, Michael Champlin wrote:

>The built-in CD burning capability is actually easy to use if you forget about the 
>previous tools and utilities that have come before.  Assuming everything is installed 
>correctly and operational, the basics are as follows:
>
>Data CD
>
>1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
>2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Open writable CD folder 
>using Windows Explorer" and select the OK option.
>3. Drag and drop any folders and files as needed to this window. (Windows is making 
>a copy of the data at this time)
>4. To write to the CD, select the "Write These files to CD" option in the upper 
left 
>hand options area of Windows Explorer.
>5. Wait for the write to complete and chek your work.
>
>Music CD (Disk Copy - kinda)
>
>1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
>2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Select media to copy 
>to CD using Windows Media Player" and select the OK option.
>3. Using the Media Player, select a stored "playlist" to copy to the CD by selecting 
>the "Copy to CD or Device" button. (If all you want to fo is copy and existing CD, 
>unfortunately, you have to copy[rip] the source music onto disk using the "Copy 
from 
>CD" button first.
>4. Once you have selected all the playlists to be copy, press the "Record to CD" 
>button in the upper right corner of the Media Player. (The selected tracks will 
be 
>re-convirted to a CD recognizible format and then burned to the CD.)
>
>Note: If making [archive] copies are all you want to do, my mught be better off 
purchasing 
>an XP tested CD utility software program.  
>
>Good burning to you!
>
>-Michael
>

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I do not get that dialog box. The explorer opens to the CD but I can not copy anything to the cd-r.


On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 6:03 pm, Matterhorn69 wrote:
>Ok, follow-up question on this post:
>
>I used the CD-burning utility in XP last night to burn 3 cdr's. My intention was
>to move 1.95 GB (650 mb x 3) of files from my hard drive. When the utility finished
>writing the data to the cdr I chose to delete the temp files, then closed the utility.
> I then went into explorer and deleted the files from the original folder location,
>then cleared out the recycle bin.
>
>Here is the problem and the question: The first 2 burns and deletes resulted in
>almost no gained space - maybe 100 mb. The 3rd burn and delete resulted in eating
>up 500-600 mb of space on my primary drive - even though I burned and deleted from
>my D or secondary drive. I have searched for .tmp files, I searched both drives
>for any files created yesterday to see if I could find the original file names or
>some big .dmp or .tmp or some other kind of big files that might be stored somewhere
>hidden. What do I do? I have run Norton utilities, disk defrag, and even clicked
>on just about every folder on both drives looking for something.
>
>PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
>
>Matt
>
>
>

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