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Ta Shamus; I?m plugging along trying to familiarize myself with the vocabulary and making progress. I didn?t want to create the impression I expected y?all to hold my hand through that exercise. That?s what things like ?Webopedia? are for; after all; eh? I had to start pretty far down the savvy ladder. I didn?t know there was a difference between CDs and DVDs until a couple of weeks ago, and then when I came upon all the DVD formats and flavours and code names?. well? I had gone over the Guides area, and, in response to Mr. Lightening; I was favourably impressed with the layout and logic. Not much shy of elegant, I ?pines. Beats anything I?ve come across so far in the way of ?Learnin? Tools? anyways; ?suits me right down to the ground, and then some. But I?m new in these parts and subject to amazement about many things that the locals might rightly well take for granted. I?d be hard put-upon to venture in on improving it, especially since I just clapped eyes on it. Now if he?d asked ?the missus?, he?d a got enough opinions on improvements ?to last?. It wouldn?t matter that she?s never laid a finger on a computer, and still thinks ?Download? is what I used to do to our daughter when she blew curfew. She still can?t forgive Panasonic for the way the display on the microwave always sticks colons in the temperature setting. She reckons we must have got the Japanese version by mistake; or something. There isn?t now, nor ever has been, anything created by God or ?factured by man that couldn?t do with a good ?improving? in her mind. And once it?s been improved, and ticking along like a Rolex with a fresh battery, that?s about the time it appears there?s a systemic flaw in the arrangement and it?s time to bulldoze it down and start over from scratch. If Mr. Lightening really wants suggestions about "improvements", he needs to ask a wife. If he wants to get cured of the habit, he should get one. ?well? having spent the bulk of my free time over the last month or so; the time left over when I?m not ?improving? something, like my personality, the way I dress, what I read, what music I listen to, how long a ?tail? I should let dangle from the roll so?s she doesn?t have to pick at it to get the next sheet, or on a deputy ministerial commission project around the house or the yard, ? time trying to find a way to copy my docs & sets to some kind of storage medium, and not succeeding so far, and feeling like an absolute putz, I am now in a position of asking where the dickens do I find the/se folder/files with the phrase ?Documents and Settings? so I can push the right buttons to make it so? I?ve seen references to there being something called a Windows File System, and that stuff is filed in there. I?m not convinced this is true, and I take no responsibility for the probity of these rumors. I?m going on heresay. I got to the point of opening the ImagBurn app and finding the icon to select a file, and I can find in something labeled (C:) an entry for ?Documents and Settings?, but it is dated September 2004! I don?t know what button to push next.

No need to "improve" anything at your end. I just have to acquaint myself with the acronyms and terminology. Like: What the heck is an "ISO" and where do they come from? I don't understand enough to suggest anything at this point. "Progam Menu"; i.e. the list of programs and applications that appears in Windows when I click [start] => Programs. "Adobe, Autocad, AVG Free Edition, ..... Windows Media Player, etc,. etc,. Moving on: I opened the app again and set it for 4X, and it found the device/destination. There is an icon to select the file, and I can navigate from there to my Local Disc C:\ where there is a folder called "Documents and Settings" dated over 2 years ago. It has 5.33 GB in it. Now what?

Lightning; Believe me; my comment was intended as self-deprecating humour and in no way an evaluation of anything on this forum. Picture Jed Clampett walking in to a "Trekkie" convention. "Oooooo Doggies" don't even be-gin. That would make sense. You're saying those two prompts I cited were/are legitimate, and just pre-programmed to check for program updates; eh? I think what I did was: after installing IB back in Oct., I dragged the DT icon to my Quick Launch Bar and deleted the icon on the DT. My QL icon has the "(2)" appendended to it. It's just that in my very limited experience, I'm used to seeing such things appear in my Program Menu with their own drop down menu with several options such as Open, Exit or Uninstall; and like that. Everything appeared to have made it to the ImgBurn Folder; 'per se'.

I wasn't as clear as I should have been. I was nearly brain dead after a long, long nite. It's my firewall (Kerio) that prompts for the OK to allow the connection(s) on port 80. I d/loaded the program back on Oct. 16 from: < http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download>. I infer from your response that this behaviour is peculiar; as I suspected.

I downloaded ImgBurn a while ago, then bought a DVD+RW Burner (Samsung SH-S182) and installed it ... all to the intent of burning a complete docs & sets backup for my PC in case of a HD crash or some other calamity. My docs are about 1.2 GB and the total burn looks like about 4.8 GB. I scanned a number of posts and FAQs on this site, including: > "How to burn an image with ImgBurn" No offense, but to a PC newbie and desktop camper like me, 95% of it looks like a hodgepoge of Klingon and Flathead Indian, while the remaining 5% could be some dialect of "Techno-Speak" that was a work in progress HG Wells was playing with before it gave him a stroke. I am soooo out of my depth. I have a lot to learn. The first Q that came up is: why am I prompted to allow a connection to sites such as "baytest@.microsoft.com" and "malthus.zen.co.uk" as soon as I open the ImgBurn application? Since I want to copy my whole system, the idea of needing to be connected to a remote site makes me suspicious. I don't see why I can't perform the task "Offline" if I should so choose. The next Q is: why can't I find ImgBurn in my Windows Program menu? I have the ImgBurn.exe in my C:\Program Files, and I have a working shortcut icon in my Quick Launch Tray. If I can get these answered, I'll be sure to have some other Q's. But this is a start. emachines OEM T2893 CPU: Intel? Celeron? D Processor 330 (2.66GHz, 533MHz FSB, 256KB L2 cache) Operating System: Genuine Microsoft? Windows? XP Home Chipset: Intel? 845GV chipset Memory: 512MB DDR (PC2700); expandable to 2GB HDD (Master): WD Caviar WD800 BB-JHAD 80GB HDD (Slave): Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 EIDE 160GB ATA-133 Optical Drive: CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive ODD (Slave): Samsung SH-S182 DVD+RW Media Reader: 8-in-1 digital media manager (Secure Digital? (SD), Smart Media, Compact Flash, Micro Drive, Memory Stick?, Memory Stick PRO, Multimedia Card, USB 2.0 Video: Intel? Extreme Graphics 3D 64MB DDR Shared memory Sound: AC '97 audio Network: Intel? PRO 10/100Mbps integrated Ethernet LAN Modem: 56K ITU v.92-ready fax/modem Peripherals: Standard emachines multi-media keyboard Logitech Fast RF Cordless Mouse (LX5- S'Ware: Logitech Setpoint 2.4a) Monitor: Dell CRT 16 in. Labtec amplified stereo speakers and subwoofer Interfaces: 5 USB 2.0 ports (1 in media manager, 4 in back), VGA external connector, 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2, Audio In & Out emachines OEM T2893 RUNNING GEAR Windows XP-Home (OEM eMachines T2893) Logitech Setpoint 2.4a Optical Mouse Kerio Personal 2.1.4 Firefox (1.5.0.8) (Default) Thunderbird (1.5.0.5) (Default) *IE/OE 6 SP2, *Netscape 8.1 *Opera Ad-Aware SE Personal v 1.06 Spybot S&D 1.4 SpywareBlaster v3.4 AVG Free Edition 7.1.394 Ewido 4.0 WinPatrol BigFix 2.0.2.3 Adobe Reader 7.0 Nvu 1.0 Signature995: Version 6.1 Winamp5 (default) *Windows Media Player 10 (disabled) *RealTime (disabled) ImgBurn 2.1.0.0