Using the CD Burner Software

Ok, you’ve got the CD burner installed and everything’s working great. You’re ready to start burning those CD’s. Well almost. You need to install the burning software that came with your new CD burner. Two of the most popular burning software is Nero and Roxi Easy CD Creator. For this tutorial we will use Nero.

Put the CD that came with your new burner in the CD ROM drive and just follow the on screen instructions.Now that the software is installed you should have an icon on your desktop, double click on it and open the program. Nero has what they call Nero Start Smart navigation. When the program opens you will see pictures across the top. Move you mouse over each picture, then look just below the picture to select a function to perform.

So let’s create a data disk with your vacation pictures. Go ahead and move your mouse over the picture that looks like a piece of paper. Below that you will see “Make Data Disk”. Now click on it. A new window will open up, and you will see an empty box. Off to the right you will see a button that says “Add”. Click on the add button.

This will open a window called “Select Files and Folder”. This tutorial assumes you know how to navigate around in Windows Explorer, if not you will have to learn how before you can burn files to a CD. Now in the location box at the top, click on the black down arrow off to the right and navigate to the directory where your vacation pictures are.

Once you find your vacation pictures, click once on the directory to highlight it, then click on the add button at the bottom. Once all the files are copied, click finish. Make sure you have a blank CD in your CD burner, then click burn.

When it is done you will receive a message letting you know the burn process has completed successfully. Take your newly created CD out and your done. I hope this has helped you to understand CD burning. Now your ready to burn all your files to CD’s.