A collection of CD/DVD usage tips to ease your everyday tasks and enhance your CD/DVD lifespan:

• With a CD recorder, you may download MP3 music from the Internet and burn audio CDs to play the music in a CD player or in your car.
• Keep CD-R discs in a cool, dry and dark place as heat, humidity, or direct sunlight will shorten the useful life of CD-R discs.
• CD-R discs are vulnerable to physical damages, so do not write on a CD-R disc with a ball-point pen. And some permanent markers can corrode the protective coat on a CD-R disc, it is advisable that, when labeling on CD-R discs, pens designed specifically for CD-R discs are used.
• Do not put labels on CD-R discs as they can shorten CD-R lifetime.
• When creating a music CD, make sure you select "Audio", not "Data", at the beginning of the process.
• Never use CD-RW disc to back up critical data, because, if a CD-RW disc fails during a data writing process, all data on the disc will be lost.

Other CD/DVD Topics:

• CD/DVD formats, standards and common facts.
• Detailed instructions to help you tackle some common CD/DVD issues.
• Useful links to Microsoft knowledge base articles on CD/DVD for advanced computer users to troubleshoot CD/DVD problems.

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