One thing I love about Windows 7 is its ability to simply do tasks, which used to be far too complicated in the first place.
Take burning a CD or DVD for example, firstly it involved scouring the web for burning software which will work for you. Then depending on what software you choose, you could either end up handing over some money or you may have gotten a free program, regardless you will then have to download and install it. After all this you may be plagued with problems such as the software not detecting your burning drive or not recognizing discs in the drive.
Finally you would then have to open up your chosen software, navigate through some menus, which even your local tech enthusiast will struggle to understand, select the files you want and finally go hunting for that burn button.
With Windows 7, things have got a whole lot easier. Windows 7 has its own built in burning features so you can burn a CD/DVD in just a few clicks.
1. Select a file or files your want to burn to a disc, and click the Burn button at the top of your window.
2. You will then be presented with another window showing the files added to the burn list, so you will be able to add more files to the burn list if you want or you can just click burn to disc.
3. It will then check to make sure you have a disc inserted into your drive, and if you do you will be asked to add a name to the disc and you can choose a different write speed if you wish but it will automatically select the highest recording speed available for you.
4. And once you’ve clicked next it will begin burning the files to the disc, and then your done.
5. So it’s as simple as that, you will also be given the opportunity to create an additional copy of the disc if you want.
You can also easily burn iso image files just as easily, check out our guide here
What about making Audio CD out of bunch of MP3s?
How about making a duplicate copy of a dvd or cd disc?
when I burn a CD in windows 7 I can play it on a PC but it will not play in a CD player or in the car etc.
Thanks for this great guide! I still finding bugs because my windows 7 crashes every time I burn CD or DVD. Is this an effect of virus or did I missed something?
Thank You very much!!!!~~
This is not working for me – I have tried multiple CD’s and it still rejects them as not-writeable – I am using CD-R. I have Windows 7 – Ultimate – apparently not designed to burn CD’s
Mkajdos, if you cannot get the internal burning program to work, I suggest you use a free alternative such as ImgBurn instead: http://www.imgburn.com/