That said, let's see how to burn a CD with Windows XP.
1. Insert a blank CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. In a few moments you will see a dialog box popping up on your monitor that looks like the screenshot below.

Figure 1
CD Drive (D:) dialog box.
What do you want Windows to do?Select (click on to highlight) "Open writable CD folder using Windows Explorer", then click on OK. (If you want Windows to perform the same action every time you insert a blank CD in the drive, then put a checkmark in front of "Always do the selected action" before clicking on OK.)
The above action will bring up a temporary folder where you can drag and drop the files you want copied on the CD. You can bring here as many files from your computer as you want so long the total file sizes do not exceed the CD's capacity. An average CD can hold upto about 700 MB. If you exceed this limit, Windows will notify you. In that case, delete some files from this folder to stay within the limit. After you bring your files to this folder, the folder will look similar to the one shown below.