Finding your way with Getting started help in Burn by Zaweba

New programs are easiest to learn when the guide is inside them. Getting started is Burn's own guide, built into the app and opened from Help or by pressing F1, and it covers the jobs most people come to Burn by Zaweba for.

It is short on purpose. It explains what to do, then lets you get on and do it.

What it covers

The guide starts with backing up your files, since that is what the Backup Assistant on the home screen is for. It then explains checking backups, so you know what the check after burning does and why it matters, and restoring, so you know how to get files back from backup discs before you ever need to.

After the backup topics, it explains burning any files to a data disc, and then music: making audio CDs and the other music jobs. Finally it tells you where the image and disc tools live, so you can find the tools for disc images and the utilities on the menus.

When to read it

Read it on your first day with Burn. A few minutes with the guide gives you a map of the whole app, which makes the menus far less mysterious.

Come back to it before your first restore. Restoring is the job you hope never to do in a hurry, and knowing the steps in advance takes the stress out of it.

Open it when you are looking for a tool you have heard Burn has but can't spot. The guide's section on where the image and disc tools are is there for exactly that.

Getting the most from it

Read it in order the first time. The guide moves from backing up to checking to restoring, which is the order the jobs happen in real life, so following it gives you the whole story of a backup before you move on to burning files and music.

Keep Burn open beside the guide and follow along. Opening the Backup Assistant while reading about it, for example, ties the words to the real screens.

Try the backup topics on a small folder first. Back up a few files, restore them to a spare folder, and you will have tried the whole cycle the guide describes.

Pair it with the keyboard shortcuts. Help also lists the shortcuts, and once you know F1 opens the guide and Esc returns home, moving around becomes quick.

Other help in the Help menu

Getting started sits with other items in Help. Keyboard shortcuts lists every shortcut and menu key. Report a problem and Send feedback let you tell Zaweba about something that isn't right, with personal information removed from the details before anything is sent.

How the guide matches the app

The guide is the starting point, and the rest of Burn is laid out to match it. The home screen puts backup first, the menus group the image and disc tools, and Settings holds the few choices you might want to change. With Getting started at F1, help in Burn by Zaweba is never more than a key away.