Computer Learning

[gotmilk]

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Doug,... in windows explorer, right click on the cd...

I been trying to locate that menu for over a week.
Never occured to me from my Win3.1 experience to "right click"
on the CD icon. I read and reread the Help for CD burning over
and over and it always told me to do stuff, but never said
to do first the "right click" on icon.

Ya'up, the CD-RW disks were 4X or high speed 12X,
while my eMachine CD unit said Ultra Write 48X.
But there might be an apples & oranges here with
a CD-R and CD-RW where the rewritable CD is a different beast
as i foggy remember reading about it months ago in thae URL link
I think tc may have put in the iBox for this thread. The chemistry
or surface layers for rewritable at the same disk area I think
have a slower transient rate for change while a CD-R can be zapped
with a "gun" and the gun can move on to the next area while the "bullet"
is still traveling between barrel end and point of impact. The RW
surface I think first needs to be "conditioned" to a state before
it can be shot at again with a zero or one bullet.

But now that I know I can add to my CD-R over and over just so long
as it has free space, I no need the RW. Also, I tried to delete
a file I put on the CD-R yesterday, and it worked. Then I put another
file on the CD-R and tried to put it on again in the same directory
(folder) and BY Gosh IT WORKed. Guess the CD simply said ok I will
put a file of same name in this folder, but first I will "erase"
the prior one by making it not visual by permanently taking the
physical space out of view. Makes sense since once a place is writen
to on a CD-R, it can't be changed, but you can have it "erased" so that
it can be replace by another file of same name. I bet shareware exist
to be able to read any erased like this since it really is still there,
and infact cannot be deleted.

Thanks again about the mouse right click,
I won't have tried that ever.

D:oug