CD Writing Wizard in XP?

[Guest]

Can someone please explain how the CD writing wizard works. How do you get
specific files from a software application on a CD-RW? What are the steps in
Windows XP (Media Center 2005). The following is a discussion I had on the
Quicken Forum site that explains the problem.
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I have Quicken 2005 Deluxe and Windows XP Media Center (2005). When I
back-up my quicken data file (with the CD writing wizard checked) the dialog
box that comes back and says the files have been archived in the Windows XP
Temp. CD Burning folder and that I still have to burn a CD. Where is this
folder? The data is not actually on the CD drive selection that I selected.
The quicken instructions do not explain the process.
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Quicken does not explain it, because it is a Windows XP process, not a
Quicken process. You should be able to find more information using the Start
-> Help and Support menu options of Windows XP.

You can also look in the taskbar on the right, near the clock. There should
appear a little icon if you have files waiting to be written to CD.

Also if you click on the CD icon in My Computer, you should be able to see
the files waiting to be written.

You can also write the files by right-clicking on the CD Icon in My computer
and in the menu that appears I seem to recall there is an option to write the
CD.

If you have difficulties/problems with the process, ask in the appropriate
Windows XP forums on
news://msnews.microsoft.com/
_______________________________________

Thanks for trying to help me. I've spent about an hour working thru your
proposed solutions including looking at XP help), to no avail. I have no
icons and right clicking does not produce a copy to CD option. What I can not
understand is that that when I select my CD-RW drive in quicken back-up, the
files are not placed there. I'm using the CD Windows Writing Wizard so I
guess this has something to do with it. It looks like the files are placed in
a file called BACKUP under QUICKEN on the C: drive but that is not where I
specified them to go. I just did the back-up outside of Quicken by taking
those files and copying to the CD-RW. No "wizard" was involved. If QUICKEN
wants you to store backup files on data CD's outside of your hard disk, there
must be an easer way to do this. And Quicken/Intuit should explain the
process. I'm going to copy this entire discussion and post it on an
appropriate Windows XP forum.

 

[Nepatsfan]

Can someone please explain how the CD writing wizard works.
How do you get specific files from a software application on
a CD-RW? What are the steps in Windows XP (Media Center
2005). The following is a discussion I had on the Quicken
Forum site that explains the problem.
_____________________________________________

I have Quicken 2005 Deluxe and Windows XP Media Center
(2005). When I back-up my quicken data file (with the CD
writing wizard checked) the dialog box that comes back and
says the files have been archived in the Windows XP Temp. CD
Burning folder and that I still have to burn a CD. Where is
this folder? The data is not actually on the CD drive
selection that I selected. The quicken instructions do not
explain the process.
__________________________________________

Quicken does not explain it, because it is a Windows XP
process, not a Quicken process. You should be able to find
more information using the Start -> Help and Support menu
options of Windows XP.

You can also look in the taskbar on the right, near the
clock. There should appear a little icon if you have files
waiting to be written to CD.

Also if you click on the CD icon in My Computer, you should
be able to see the files waiting to be written.

You can also write the files by right-clicking on the CD
Icon in My computer and in the menu that appears I seem to
recall there is an option to write the CD.

If you have difficulties/problems with the process, ask in
the appropriate Windows XP forums on
news://msnews.microsoft.com/
_______________________________________

Thanks for trying to help me. I've spent about an hour
working thru your proposed solutions including looking at XP
help), to no avail. I have no icons and right clicking does
not produce a copy to CD option. What I can not understand
is that that when I select my CD-RW drive in quicken
back-up, the files are not placed there. I'm using the CD
Windows Writing Wizard so I guess this has something to do
with it. It looks like the files are placed in a file called
BACKUP under QUICKEN on the C: drive but that is not where I
specified them to go. I just did the back-up outside of
Quicken by taking those files and copying to the CD-RW. No
"wizard" was involved. If QUICKEN wants you to store backup
files on data CD's outside of your hard disk, there must be
an easer way to do this. And Quicken/Intuit should explain
the process. I'm going to copy this entire discussion and
post it on an appropriate Windows XP forum.

I've got Quicken running on my pc and have no problems backing
up to a CD. The process goes just as described in the support
info you've posted. The CD icon shows up in the notification
area as expected.

You might want to check the following:

Open My Computer and right click on the icon for your CD-RW.
Click on the Recording tab.
Make sure there's a check mark in the box next to "Enable CD
recording on this drive".

The only way I was able to recreate the symptoms you describe
was by disabling this feature.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Guest]

Yes. If I right click on the drive in My Computer...there is an option for
writing files to a CD. If selected, the CD writing wizard comes
up...finally, I found it. But why would you want to store your back-up files
on the hard disk until you make a CD. I thought the whole purpose of puting
your files on removable media is to keep them separate from the hard drive in
case of a failure.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Cannot Back Up Quicken Files to CD
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316415

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| Can someone please explain how the CD writing wizard works. How do you get
| specific files from a software application on a CD-RW? What are the steps in
| Windows XP (Media Center 2005). The following is a discussion I had on the
| Quicken Forum site that explains the problem.
| _____________________________________________
|
| I have Quicken 2005 Deluxe and Windows XP Media Center (2005). When I
| back-up my quicken data file (with the CD writing wizard checked) the dialog
| box that comes back and says the files have been archived in the Windows XP
| Temp. CD Burning folder and that I still have to burn a CD. Where is this
| folder? The data is not actually on the CD drive selection that I selected.
| The quicken instructions do not explain the process.
| __________________________________________
|
| Quicken does not explain it, because it is a Windows XP process, not a
| Quicken process. You should be able to find more information using the Start
| -> Help and Support menu options of Windows XP.
|
| You can also look in the taskbar on the right, near the clock. There should
| appear a little icon if you have files waiting to be written to CD.
|
| Also if you click on the CD icon in My Computer, you should be able to see
| the files waiting to be written.
|
| You can also write the files by right-clicking on the CD Icon in My computer
| and in the menu that appears I seem to recall there is an option to write the
| CD.
|
| If you have difficulties/problems with the process, ask in the appropriate
| Windows XP forums on
| news://msnews.microsoft.com/
| _______________________________________
|
| Thanks for trying to help me. I've spent about an hour working thru your
| proposed solutions including looking at XP help), to no avail. I have no
| icons and right clicking does not produce a copy to CD option. What I can not
| understand is that that when I select my CD-RW drive in quicken back-up, the
| files are not placed there. I'm using the CD Windows Writing Wizard so I
| guess this has something to do with it. It looks like the files are placed in
| a file called BACKUP under QUICKEN on the C: drive but that is not where I
| specified them to go. I just did the back-up outside of Quicken by taking
| those files and copying to the CD-RW. No "wizard" was involved. If QUICKEN
| wants you to store backup files on data CD's outside of your hard disk, there
| must be an easer way to do this. And Quicken/Intuit should explain the
| process. I'm going to copy this entire discussion and post it on an
| appropriate Windows XP forum.

 

[Guest]

I am using my cd writing wizard for the first time, I have got the file
copied and the baloon comes up telling me I have files ready to write when I
click on this I get the page where you should be able to click write file to
cd. When I click I just get a bleep like sound and nothing happens. I have
checked and my enable recording is selected. What else could be causing this
problem? I burn cd's all the time but this is the first time I have used it
to copy a medley to a cd. Thank you,

 

[Umma Gumma]

Mine was working fine until I did an upgrade to SP2. I contacted Microsoft
and they provided a hotfix which never did work. So I'm now resolved to only
using my CD burning software, Nero (and older version...the newer ones are
just too bloated for my taste).

Incidentally Nero's InCD doesn't work on my drive either. I get all sorts of
I/O errors, since SP2. So you either upgrade to SP2 and loose packet writing
ability or you stay upgraded and risk the security leaks but have the I/O
capabilities.....