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Manage Burning Speed in Windows Media Player in Windows 7

By Codrut Nistor

Posted in How-to, Windows-7

Windows Media Player is a versatile application which also allows users to burn audio and data discs according to their requirements. Also it is well-known that whenever a disc is burned in the disc burner burning speed should be kept at the minimum to get the best performance. However Windows Media Player is by default configured to burn the discs at the fastest speed which expedites the burning process remarkably but at the cost of decreased performance (sometimes). If users want they can still specify burning speed in Windows Media Player and as a Windows 7 user of Windows Media Player if you want to do so you can follow the steps provided as below:

  1. Logon to Windows 7 computer with the account that has administrative privileges.

  2. Click on the icon of Windows Media Player that is available in the taskbar in order to initiate the application.

  3. On the opened interface click on Organize menu and from the appeared list click on Options.

  4. On the appeared box go to Burn tab and under Generalsection from the available drop-down list select the burning speed as required.

  5. Finally click on Ok button to allow Windows Media Player to save the changes.