Advantages of Cd Burning Software vs built in Windows CD Burner

"There are more features then just simple file cd burning.

You can burn a variety of disk images (ISO, etc.)
Video cd's (VCD's)
You have much more control over burn speeds and drive progress monitoring.
Some software has cd label features (lightscribe, sticker labels)
Ability to save file lists and cd layouts.
Visual GUI elements to remind you of disk space available.
Much better CD-RW support
Better Audio CD support (tags, cd-text, mp3 cd's, etc.)

This all depends on which software package you choose, but those are some of the common enhancements over windows basic file burn."

"The built-in CD burner in Vista can't do disk images. This functionality was introduced in Windows 7.

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs....-7.aspx

The ability to burn ISO images
natively within Windows is new to
Windows 7."