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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:19:04 -0700, pastor wrote:
> Sharon F...will you marry me?LOL. I am having the same problem. Dell 8600
> loaded with XP and I can't save a simple MSword or powerpoint file to my D:
> drive (cd). I could easily do it a month ago, but caught a virus...computer
> man kicked out my LAN drives and the cd quit working...now I have to go to my
> computer and copy a C: file to D: and then go into D: and rewrite the file
> onto disk...takes me 2 to 3 minutes with this process. It says I am not the
> administrator, but I have checked several times and I am...???? Thanks for
> the web site...great info.
Marry? Sorry, not available ;^)
Not sure I understand what happened on your system. I read it as : your
system was infected by a virus and the "computer man" disconnected it from
the network to protect other workstations.
Disconnecting from the network shouldn't make a difference in the procedure
of burning a CD *unless* your system was previously using a CD burning
program that was on a network share and/or burning to a mapped network
drive (not physically connected to your system).
Most burning programs that I'm familiar with require a local installation
to support the hardware on that same computer. Your situation may be caused
by network specifics that I'm not familiar with. I only run into so many
issues on my tiny workgroup of three computers. Sorry. May want to ask the
"computer man" what's up with CD burning on your setup.
By the way, did the virus ever get cleaned up? There are several of these
that can interfere with CD burning.
The article below covers the XP process of CD burning - a somewhat
cumbersome process but adequate for basic burning needs:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
It also discusses some alternatives and the convenience factors those other
programs might include.
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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User