How do I give myself permission to save to a CDR?

Factual Questions
1

Really dumb, I know. I would like to save a large document, about 11MB, to a CD-R. But whenever I try, I get a message saying I don’t have permission and I need to contact an admin. (isn’t that me?) about it.

  Anybody know what to do?
2

You don’t save to a CD-R directly (e.g., from inside a program).

Open the folder where the file is and drag it to the CD-ROM drive.

Open the CD-ROM drive folder. There should be an instruction to write the files to the CD-ROM. Click on that to start the CD writing wizard. It should be simple from there.

3

I tried that. Then I tried the “send to” method.
Both times, the msg. said it was inaccessible and there was an incorrect function.

4

Is this XP or Vista?

5

Xp.

6

Are you using an administrator account or a user account (good boys and girls, even if they’re IT pros, only use the admin account when they need to :smiley: )?

7

I always thought I was a user, not an admin. How could I tell?

8

Start>Control Panel>User Accounts>Change an Account>User Name>Change Account Type>Computer Administrator>Change Account Type.

9

There is no User Accounts section in the Control Panel. I’ll poke around and see what I can find.