CD Writing Wizard - cannot get to

[Guest]

For some reason, my CD writing wizard is no longer working. When I start the
computer (or try to backup files), I get the icon in the system tray telling
me there are files waiting to be written. When I click on the "balloon", it
goes away, but nothing else appears (do not see the usual menu with files
waiting to be written).

I have tried to go back to a system restore point where I know this was
working, but did not seem to help.

Any ideas or places I can look?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

For some reason, my CD writing wizard is no longer working. When I start
the
computer (or try to backup files), I get the icon in the system tray
telling
me there are files waiting to be written. When I click on the "balloon",
it
goes away, but nothing else appears (do not see the usual menu with files
waiting to be written).

I have tried to go back to a system restore point where I know this was
working, but did not seem to help.

Any ideas or places I can look?

If you just want to get rid of the files, use the disk cleanup tool.

Description of the disk cleanup tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312

If you want to write these files to a CD, navigate to the CD Burning folder
at %User Profile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning
folder and select File/Write these files to CD.

If the drive does not burn the files, right click the CD Recording drive and
select Properties/Recording tab to make sure that the recording feature is
enabled.

 

[Guest]

Thanks....I did this manually. Is there any way to get the wizard to start
working again. Now for some reason, even the balloon is not showing up.