Windows 10: Burning to CD

If I really need to use a front port, I'll plug the wired mouse back in, it goes in the rear.

 

USB ports are all the same size except for the new USB-C ports - and if the computer isn't new enough to have USB 3 ports, it sure isn't new enough to have a USB-C port.

 

Amadeus you system is a slimline desktop and it has 1 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0 slots on the back........the USB 3.0 is blue color and the USB 2.0 slots are next to your LAN cable plug in.....

For convenience sake you might plug your wireless and mouse into the back ports......

 

This is what you have:

HP Slimline 450-a114 Desktop PC Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support

The "large USB slot" on the front is a memory card reader. The other two are ordinary USB 2.0 slots.

There are three USB slots in the rear I/O panel. One is USB 3.0 (blue), and the other two are USB 2.0 (probably black). I'm not sure why you didn't spot them.

Just for fun, I tried to burn a file to a CD-RW disk. (I haven't used one in years.) I got an error message. However, I right-clicked on the disk in Windows Explorer and was able to choose "erase this disk". After that, I was able to burn to the disk. There were two options: like a CD, and like a floppy (packet writing). The latter warned me that it'd format the RW disk, and that could take a long time. I chose the regular CD option, and it worked.

I'm not sure of the differences between Win7 and Win10 for burning rewriteable disks. At a recent former job I used the Win7 CD burning utility at times, but I wasn't permitted to use RW disks.

 

Here is a picture of the rear panel showing your 2 x USB 2.0 ports

 

It does not look like any of the ports on the back are small enough for the plugins I have for the mouse and Wi-Fi. They are either the large ones for multiple prongs or the single prong holes.

 

Take a picture of the back of your computer without anything plugged into it and attach it in your next post.

 

If you look at the picture spunk posted #2 and #3 are the usb ports on the back.

 

I do not own a camera and my phone can't be used to transfer pictures to a computer. I live at the low end of the food chain. I did just look and I see no USB ports as small as the two on the front. All of the ones in use are either the single jack holes or the large multiprong ones.

 

Is the computer in the picture the correct one?

 

Is this what the back of the PC looks like?





I have drawn a red box around the USB ports.