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Comment from sue on 2009-09-21

2009-09-21T23:49:10Z

Is the cd burning instructions above good if you want to transfer those files you are going to burn, to a new hard drive? I need a new desktop, as mine in 10 years old, and probably holding onto alot of "garbage" I don't want transferred from old to new hard drive.Will this work okay? Thanks, Sue

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Comment from Francis Sharkey on 2009-09-07

2009-09-07T13:41:43Z

Hi there, the problems I have been having regarding DVD and CD burning etc are too long to detail but basically when I first had my PC it was so easy to burn a CD a 3 year old could do it.Now, though, and possibly since I had a major upgrade following a virus (New HD, more memory),and numerous types of software eg Ashampoo 9, my end result won't play on anything except my PC.I understand the difference between data and audio CD's etc and am told the CD is finalized after burning. Even different write speeds fail. If I display the tracks, they are all something like 44Kb , un-named tracks.The CD looks like it is full despite the low content of the disc. One thing I noticed on reading your instructions on CD burning was when I clicked properties on the drive,there was no recording tab after "sharing";also the drive is listed as a DVD RAM drive...Can you help? PS both of my optical drives are new also.

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Comment from CHET on 2009-08-18

2009-08-18T16:44:21Z

Hi Leo
Before buying my new computer I saved my pictures,programs etc. to a CD..when it came time to put them on my new computer I had a huge problem.I had saved the 'shortcuts'. The question is HOW DO I SAVE THE PROGRAMS AND PICTURES? The pics I saved had text for each picture instead of the actual images. Hope this is clear and thanks in advance.

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Comment from Mary Smissaert on 2008-05-20

2008-05-20T11:06:38Z

Will Imgburn allow me to put gpegs on a DVD? I tried all day yesterday with many other programs but when I finished, none would work on my DVD player/ Is this any beter?

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Comment from rob on 2007-12-03

2007-12-04T03:03:01Z

Also, simply SELECT files to burn (click on the first one - hold SHIFT and click the last one), rightclick in the selected area and SENDTO your CD/DVD drive.

To copy a movie, I also use IMGBURN to BUILD an ISO and then WRITE to disk. A large movie can easily be reduced to 4.3GB with DVDFLICK so it will fit on a normal DVD. IMGBURN is built in to DVDFLICK.

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Comment from Terry Hollett on 2007-12-02

2007-12-02T20:20:30Z

You can use a CD-RW like an hard drive, in a way, By using some 'packet-writing' software, like 'Direct CD' from 'Easy Cd Creater', or 'InCD' from 'Nero'.

I'm somewhat of a download junky, and like to save everything I download. So I download the files and burn them of to a CD-RW, then when I get enough files saved, I try for 650 MB (a formated CD-RW only gives you about 530 - so I spread the files out over a cople of Cds). When I get enough I then copy all of them to my hard drive and burn them of on a CDR. Format the CD-RW and start all over again.

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Comment from Greg on 2007-12-01

2007-12-02T01:46:57Z

What about the prompt of making Himat compatible?
What benefit do I really have enabling this feature?

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Comment from Nick Gimbrone on 2007-12-01

2007-12-01T18:40:51Z

Some readers might benefit from noting that the term "650 MB" sometimes means "650,000,000 bytes" (e.g. when manufacturers speaking of disk capacities, etc) and sometimes means "681,574,000 bytes" (e.g. when speaking of size of files to be written, formatted size of a disk, etc). Care should be exercised, as these are two very different numbers. ;-)

For DVD burning I recently purchased Nero 7 Ultra Edition and attempts to even install it were a nightmare (I'm talking about 24 hours of my time to clean up the resulting mess to get it back off my system as installing it caused the system to nolonger boot, it disabled my Google desktop indexing, etc). Thanks for the added info on a Roxio alternative for DVDs! ;-)

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Comment from John Hileman on 2007-11-28

2007-11-29T00:52:28Z

I'd like to suggest that perhaps a flash drive would be easier to use. This depends, of course, on the reason for saving the file - for example if it is to be mailed, a CD would work better.

Ronny - I am curious too. I use Paint Shop Pro X and this particular torn edge treatment does not appear to be available.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-11-28

2007-11-29T00:46:51Z

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I use snagit from http://techsmith.com for my screen caps. For a long time I
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ways. And adds nifty things like tear effects :-).

Thanks,

Leo

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Comment from Ronny on 2007-11-28

2007-11-28T17:21:53Z

Leo, the torn edges of your screen shots look very interesting. Could I ask what software you used to create them?

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