Hello joyce

don’t use the built in vista burner...

the best tool is nero but its not free and has gotten VERY bloated lately..

a free lightweight burner program is www.cdburnerxp.se that is vista
compatible

there are 2 ways to wipe a cd-RW, a normal erase that takes all that time,
or a quick erase..

When burning on RW media I always do a quick erase that takes second

Or I just use disks that are one use (CD-R) and not re-writable disks


for more tips and tricks visit my blog here http://computerboom.blogspot.com





"Joyce Streible" <JoyceStreible@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone tell me why it takes 20 minutes to format a cd and burn 122mb.
> Why can't you save something quicker than that