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Answer» I am wanting to learn how to do the following. I am wanting to start copying programs or whatever you would call them to a cd. I have Windows XP Pro, with SP2, with only Windows Media Player 10 installed. My son burns music with Media Player with no problem. Fordtruckmaniac..... I just tried to move ccleaner into the media player library ......... so I could burn it ........ ccleaner is in a format not supported by media player ....... So I would have to say the answer is no.......... Actually my daughter does have a Nero disk. It came with a DVD burner and CD re-write drive I put in her computer. I guess the DVD part would not matter, it would just use the CD Re-Write program? robpomeroy, I will Google Deepburner and have a look. soybean, I will check out your link as WELL. What about ISO, I have seen that mentioned on here? I used the search function on here but did not really come with what I tought I remembered reading on here. Thanks much, Quote I am wanting to learn how to do the following. I am wanting to start copying programs or whatever you would call them to a cd. I have Windows XP Pro, with SP2, with only Windows Media Player 10 installed. My son burns music with Media Player with no problem.You can't copy or burn to disk programs- You need to find the .exe file and burn them to disk. CCleamer is able to be brunt to disk if you have the .exe file you have not keeped it on your computer down load it again. Ojas How about this for an example. I have only one CD-RW drive on this computer. My wife has some computer games for my grandaughter on cd disks. Now say I want to copy these children games to another disk to send home with her. What do I need to do? Thanks, Fordtruckmaniac...... Well you should put the disk you want to copy in the cd drive ....... and then use the explore option to look at it ...... copy all files that you see into a folder you will create on your hard drive. Once you have the files on your hard drive .......remove the cd from the drive ....put in a blank cd ...open your burning software and drag the contents of the file you created into the burning program and burn it . dl65 OK I have a game in my drive bay now. It takes me to, as if I would open "My Computer" and select the D drive to open the disk. This particular disk has 4 files on it. I am not seeing "Explore" option, right clicking or any of the options at the top of the page. Please forgive me, I think the saying is right "its harder to teach an old dog new tricks". Thanks,First of all, copying game CDs etc is in the main, illegal but if you want to copy a whole CD, you'll need CD burning software such as Nero 6 onwards. In the main, Nero is self explanatory - Just read the help files and it's easy. It's important that "Show all files" etc is turned on via the Folder Options applet. If you want to copy a few files to a CD, then XP has it's own CD burning service. For ease of use, make a folder and copy all the files you want to burn to CD to that folder. Remember that you'll need the installers for programs, they cannot just be copied from your Program Files folder! Once you have all the files that you want together in one place, select them, right click and choose "Copy". Navigate to your CD writer, right click and select "Paste". Open the CD in Explorer, right click and select "Write these files to CD".Game wise, I'm talking about games that help with math or writing or Barbie. My granddaughter is 6. And I was saying "for example". And another for instance, would be copying many old, family photos I have stored in "My Documents". It would take many floppy disks to hold them all. Thanks for the help. Fordtruckmaniac.... Quote OK I have a game in my drive bay now. It takes me to, as if I would open "My Computer" and select the D drive to open the disk. This particular disk has 4 files on it. Create a new folder on your desktop ....... and name it ANYTHING you wish. Go to My Computer ....... Put the disk you wish to copy in drive D ........... Once you see the name of your drive D change to show the name of the disk you have in there ......... right click on the D: drive and you should see these options ....... Look at the image I attached ....... I have placed a game in drive D........... I go to my computer ......put the mouse on the game name I see and right click and choose EXPLORE ...... dl65 Fordtruckmaniac.........Next once you have clicked on explore , you will see the files ........ ( mine has many ........ yours only 4 ) click on Edit then select all and they will all be hilited ......... Then once hilited right click on any of the high lighted area and select COPY .......... Now go back to your desktop and right click on the new folder you created and select PASTE. It will take a moment or 2 for the info to be copied into the new folder ......... Now you can remove the disk thats in your D: drive and put in a blank cd .... open up Nero .......and drag the new folder you created into it and burn the new disk ....... dl65 The copy and paste technique won't always work. It's better to copy the CD to an image (Use Neros image feature) and then burn the image to CD. Even this method will prove unsuccessful in many cases because of copy protection routines. As for the photos etc, simply drag and drop to your CD drive and XP will do the rest.Thanks for the help. I have some CD-RW disks now. (I have been told you can erase these) And i'm going to have at it. Thanks. |
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