----- Original Message ----- From: "Hahnel, Winfried (W.A.)" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Burning CD's > I disagree with "ultra". I believe your PC is fast enough for this. I used > to burn CD-R's on a old 486 IBM PC with only 16Meg of Ram. The suggestion > to burn these at 1x is the first idea that will help. Before starting your > CD burning session, I always reboot the computer. And also be sure ALL > background programs are not running. The easiest way to do this is to do a > "CRTL-ALT-DEL" once. This brings up a "Close Program" box. You should > close as many as these as you can. The only that you must have open is > "explorer". If you close everything but "explorer", I doubt how your computer will work, you need "explorer" AND "systray" to let the computer function properly. If you could give more detail on your 486 claim, I'd like to know more please. Did you use a SCSI drive on 486? you cannot compare IDE with SCSI drive on this topic, it's like to compare fire power of a .38 hand-gun with a M16 machine gun, they are not on same level. Everyone has their own experience so let us share yours, it will benefit everyone else on the list. Thanks Jun Qian The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering special "Free-After-Rebate" Software specials in conjunction with Beyond.com. We have new offers all the time!!! http://nospin.com/promotions