Bill's Help Page


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HI, this is a page I set up so I can help folks with copying stuff to a cd such as music and pictures. I've taken screen shots of my computer which is running Windows XP to help show how your computer will look once you follow the instructions I put on here.

This first screen shot is of a regular windows screen. Up on the top left is an icon called "My Computer". You need to click on that.

MY COMPUTER screen

Up on the top of this screen, you will see Back and Forward arrows... Search...Folders, etc. Click on FOLDERS which will open up your folder tree that shows you what folders and files are on your computer. Like this:

From here you will see the screen above. You will see a +LOCAL DISK C: , click on the + sign and the tree will expand. I can't begin to guess where the files or songs are that you want to send to a cd, so I'll use the location of mine to show you what to do from here.....

This is just a screen shot to show what your screen may look like when you get to the location where your media files are (music, pictures, etc).

A word on selecting recordable compact discs. CD-R discs are rather inexpensive and you can buy them in different amounts. You can buy them in a stack which means you get 50 to 100 blank cds without a case or you can buy them in packages of 5 or 10 with the case. Look around a bit, if you can find a stack of cd's rather cheap and some empty cases that you can purchase cheaply, I'd say go for the stack. The cases are important to protect your cd so you have to have a case for each of the cds that you burn. It also helps you to identify the contents of the cds.

The best recordable cd is the CD-RW, which will allow you to rewrite over the cd later on should you want or need to. Its a bit more expensive but you have the luxery of messing up without being stuck with whatever is on your cd for the rest of time. The CD-R's are a one time shot - whatever you put on the cd, stays there.

I'm stuck out in the middle of nowhere but what I've seen is the capacity of a CD is about 700 mb or 80 minutes. There may be bigger capacity CDs for purchase these days but believe me, 700 mb is a lot of room to fill.

You've got my email addy so you can holler at me if you need more help or information. I will add other help tips to this site from time to time as I see the need.