How to Save Data on CD

Regardless of whether you use Windows, Linux or any other operating systems, you always need to take backup of your important data, files, pictures, videos, emails and any other important files and documents. For saving data on a CD, you need to write the data on CD or burn CD, as is commonly known in the computer jargon. With the availability of couple of free programs, you can easily burn a CD on your computer.




With windows, the task of How to Save Data on CD is all the more simpler because you can right click on the specific files and use the command 'Send to' and then after the Windows automatically takes care of saving the data or files on CD. Once you have sent the files to the drive F that contains CD drive, you can easily find CD Writing Dialog Box on the Start Menu and Choose My Computer. With the general sizes of about 700 MB, you can store a large amount of data files on CD; however, with the advent of DVDs, you can store up to 4.7 GB data, that is, large media, audio and video files on CD.

How to Save Notepad

All the computer beginners start with learning notepad, which is a simple text editor program of Microsoft Windows. Notepad or simple text files are generally saved with an extension .txt and are suitable for use on the most basic DOS operating system. For many people who have learned computers on their own without any formal training often find it hard when it comes to working with notepad or saving files as notepad or .txt extension because they are most of the time used to saving files as .doc or .docx extension.




Well, How to Save Notepad is not all a rocket science and it requires very few and easy-to-understand steps. However, you must keep in mind that when you save any files created in notepad, by default the program will save it with .txt extension, which could create serious problems while uploading the files through FTP. Therefore, once you have created a notepad file, you should be careful in selecting the type of extension, for instance, .html, .php or so on.