Do you have about a hundred gajillion pictures on your PC eating up hard disk space? If you have a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW drive, burning those pictures onto a CD, where they'll last for decades, is very easy. A CD certainly lasts longer than your hard drive, providing you don't gum it up with one of those sticky CD labels.
Burning pictures couldn't be simpler:
1.Make sure that your CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW drive is installed and working.
2.Start Windows Explorer. (Just choose, say, Start, My Pictures or Start, My Computer.)
3.Navigate to the pictures you want to burn. If you're in a picture or photo album folder, Copy to CD appears in the Picture Tasks list.
4.Select the picture(s) you want to burn; then click Copy to CD in the Picture Tasks list. If Copy to CD doesn't appear in the list, right-click one of the selected files (or folders) and choose Send To, CD Drive. A small CD icon appears in the notification area, next to the clock.
5.Keep moving around Windows, gathering pictures that you want to burn. In spite of what the Picture Task list and right-click menu say, Windows actually copies the files you select to a staging area -- a place on your hard drive that holds files temporarily, before you burn them to CD.
6.When you're done gathering files, choose Start, My Computer, your CD burner drive (whichever drive letter that is). Windows shows you the contents of the CD's staging area.
7.Put a recordable CD in your CD burner and click Write These Files to CD. The CD Writing Wizard appears.
8.Type the name you want to be burned on the CD; then click Next. If you've chosen too much data -- too many pictures -- the wizard alerts you.
9.If you have too many pictures selected, don't do anything with the wizard.
Instead, go back to the staging area and start deleting files or folders (right-click and choose Delete) until you're under the size limit. Don't worry -- you aren't deleting the pictures. You're just removing them from the staging area. Unfortunately, neither the wizard nor Windows offers a handy list of folder sizes or suggestions for what to trim. What you can do is right-click a folder, choose Properties, and see the folder's size.
10.When you think that you've deleted enough files or folders, go back to the wizard, click Retry Writing the Files to CD Now, and then click Next.
If you still have too many pictures selected, you get the warning again. Sooner or later, you have your picture collection trimmed down to the point where it can fit on the CD. At that point, the wizard starts writing files to the CD. Depending on the speed of your burner, it can take 20 minutes or more to burn a full CD.
11.When the wizard finishes, click Finish. The wizard removes all the files from the staging area.
Immediately try looking at the pictures on the CD.
Chances are very good that they're in excellent shape. Oh, and don't forget to label the CD with a Sharpie marker
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