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XP Home

I used to copy stuff out to the CD by right clicking + formatting, copying and then right clicking + Make Usable-ing.

The trouble is that it's all different now :mad: :mad: and formatting doesn't seem to be an option, the context menu just says "Copy these [sic] files over"

I hate it when things run differently.

Is this something to do with DLA and if so what's DLA?

Any chance I can get it back like it was?

btw, two exams down and three more to go with my MCSD. Bloody complicated stuff though .NET :ugh:

DLA = Drive Letter Access

Software that allows you to drag and drop files to a CD one at a time like you would with a hard drive. Normally in XP when you drag files to a CD you only "apparently" write them to disk immediately. The files actually hang around waiting to be written to disk together. DLA allows you to actually write them to disk immediately - one by one - using a disk format called UDF which I personally try to avoid because not all PCs are set up to read it.

I found some info that explains a lot here....

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php