From: "Robert Comer" 

>... I'm
> definitely getting one or two of those and the heck with ever again
> burning CDs for the purpose of transferring large files between work and
> home!

1GB ones are about $100 at tigerdirect right now, but I've seen them for as
low as $60 on sale.

> So, I'm curious:   Since XP has this functionality, why would you
> install a separate CD/DVD burning suite on an XP box?

The built in one is very minimal...



- Bob Comer


"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:5cu3t0hhrbt88p5mt5vnlkcmeogndlu59u{at}4ax.com...
> The same young tech who showed me that also rescued me from a
> non-functioning CD burning suite on my work desktop... he has a USB
> flash memory attached to his keychain, just stuck it in my machine,
> copied what I was trying to burn, stuck it in the XP machine and made
> the CD.  (Actually it took two trips, but who's counting.)   I'm
> definitely getting one or two of those and the heck with ever again
> burning CDs for the purpose of transferring large files between work and
> home!
>
> So, I'm curious:   Since XP has this functionality, why would you
> install a separate CD/DVD burning suite on an XP box?
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:09:46 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote in message
> :
>
>>> plus:  Very cute that you can now drag and drop to burn a CD just like
>>> writing to any drive.  (Actually I saw this on a different one than the
>>> one I was working on.)   This seems to fit in the same category as being
>>> able to go to other boxes like with pcAW but without pcAW.
>>
>>That is nice -- unless you have another CD/DVD burning suite that messes
>>it
>>up.
>>
>>> minus:  The UI is HIDEOUS.
>>
>>LOL!  I agree totally btw.   Getting rid of the new-style
start menu is
>>the first thing of many that I change.
>>
>>- Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
>>news:2qr1t0d7sm409iogon5d8dufkr05oikjc2{at}4ax.com...
>>> Some of our newer boxes have XP, and I saw one the other day because I
>>> had to install the SQL Server client on it.
>>>
>>> plus:  Very cute that you can now drag and drop to burn a CD just like
>>> writing to any drive.  (Actually I saw this on a different one than the
>>> one I was working on.)   This seems to fit in the same category as being
>>> able to go to other boxes like with pcAW but without pcAW.
>>>
>>> minus:  The UI is HIDEOUS.
>>
>

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