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Burning CD Using the Windows XP CD Burning Wizard
Step 1Insert a blank CD in the cd-rom burner. Step 2In the window that appears, select the Open writeable CD folder option in the list.  Click the OK button.  Step 3Locate the files on your computer that you wish to burn to the CD. Step 4 - Copying the files: Method 1Right click on the file that you want to copy to the CD. In the menu that appears, select the Send To option. Then select the CD Drive in the sub-menu.  Step 5 - Copying the files: Method 2Drag the files that you want to copy into the blank space in the CD Writeable folder window. Step 6In the window that opened in Step 2, you should see the files waiting to be written to the CD. Note: if you have closed this windo, you can open it again by opening My Computer and double-clicking on the CD drive (usually drive D:).  Step 7Click on the item labeled Write these files to CD in the task pane shown in the left hand side of the window.  Step 8In the CD Writing Wizard, fill in the CD name field with the text you want to label the cd. Note: the CD name cannot be longer than 16 characters.  Step 9Click the Next button.  Step 10A progress window will be displayed showing the status of the cd burning operation.  Step 11Upon successful completion, you will see the window shown below. Click the Finish button.  |