It was very good before version 6, after version 6.6.0.16 or even 6.6.0.18 was the best of the burning applications after that it just keeps more and more fat and it simply clogs your system with so much useless stuff completely unrelated to burning. As most of the great soft of the past it is useless as far as the main function (burning discs) is concerned. I switched to Imgburn and found that free application marvelous it allows absolutely anything as far as burning discs goes. Way more customizeble than nero and since it is really focused on what it supposed to do, I do not think it has any competetion right now, free or paid. I tried Nero, Ashampoo, Roxio etc, you name it. Nothing is more easy and more flexible then imgburn, it just left these bloated monsters like Nero or Ashampoo light years behind. try them all all and see for yourself. But be warned of the hard to clean slowed down and clotted system after you install any behemoth like this!
Ahead Nero Burning ROM V6.3.1.6 Ultra Edition
full of crap, too many running files when rebooting windows,and what's with the index system, windows indexing is fine, and operates on a low level (very resource friendly), nero indexing is very resource hungry, it maybe fast, but it comes at such a high cost.Nero 7 with (custom install), is great, granted it requires a lot of things to be turned off, and nero scout has to be deactivated on first use, but nero 7 is great, nero 6 is easy to install and very slim, but it's missing some very important features like Blueray support, as well as some long lasting bugs that have plagued nero for a long time, bugs that were finally squashed for nero 7 release.nero is trying to fulfil all requirements, but they are spreading there self too thin, the quality of these programs are so generic, and so many of the applications that come with nero would never be used..... the problem these companies have is that there product has reached a point where is can't be updated any further, it has reached it's maximum potential, there is no further room for improvement, nero has become ergonomically great.....but how does a company survive..... how does a company continue to sell a product that can no longer be updated further....... there is only one way, start offering more....... go into uncharted territory, offer the customer more for there buck, change from a single application, too a suite of applications.nero is a wonderful program......ON ITS OWN MERITS, but the company Ahead cannot survive on just there flagship,i don't like what there doing, but as a person who understands that if you stand still you will be left behind in today's market, with the world of burning tools available for such low cost, if not for free such as (IMGBURN, CDBurnerXP), Ahead has no choice i can see but to expand there nero suite,there biggest downfall is two fold.....1. there installer setup is to inefficient, too slow, and very unclear, it also does not allow the user too turn off enough things for the user, many of the things installed are not mandatory, but yet still get installed without the users knowledge...... a more intuitive intelligent setup routine is needed.2. the size, nero seems to be built from thousands of files, the footprint placed on the users system is unbelievable to see, full install of nero takes over 2GB of space on the harddrive, this has the downside of loading times, to load application off nero is very slow, but unsurprising considering how many files need to be loaded to get the application up and running, "Ahead" needs to think about compression, they need to compress there files with tools such as "PECompact" or put there loose files into a image, like a PAK file, which is how many large pc games come supplied, thousands of files are put into 1 file (uncompressed of course too avoid performance degradation)nero is massive, but it doesn't have to be, ahead should start thinking about compressing there files, CPU's are so powerful, that mass decompression has hardly any effect on system performance these days.i once long ago compressed nero full install (number 6 i believe) from 1.7GB down too 752MB (using PECompact) and nero worked fine,
I am very disappointed where nero has got to, it used to be my favorite burning app, but not any more, now it is bloated with features I do not need, while the core features did not improve over the years.
The only thing I use from Nero is the burning programme, yes you can deselect what you don't want but downloading such a big file for almost nothing is pretty crap. Not to mention I tried to talk a friend out of buying it, which he did anyway. He's really annoyed, to put it lightly. You buy the full suite, only to find that you have to pay even more to use the apps which you specifically paid the extra money for in the first place (the dvd authoring stuff etc) - thats a bit of a con. Not to mention even though he has a valid licence it comes up with the 'Buy now' screen, which he has to close off and load nero again several times and it suddenly works. A clean install of windows didn't help either.They simply lost the plot making Nero, if they want to spend money developing softwate people DO NOT want then thats their problem. They may be paying a premium for it now but other free alternatives are getting better all the time, it won't be long for people to realise its not worth spending the money on and go to a more reliable, cheaper alternative.
I recently purcahsed the Nero suite based on the track record I had with their products being very easy to use and operate. This was just one version ago with v8. This time, I purchased the program, attempted to install it on both a clean install of vista and of Windows XP Pro SP3 and it failed. The install lasted almost 2 hours and turned out to be due to system restore being enabled and each application install on the nero suite being a separate installer (hence a separate restore point). No problem, I disabled system restore. After that point, I attempted to install it again. This time the installer made it to about 90% then failed with the error "Setup has been interrupted and cannot continue". OK, now what? I contacted nero support. After spending time on the phone with them, they advised me to run the nero cleantool to remove what appeared to be just a failed installation. Good deal, or so I thought.Repeated attempts at installation after running the clean tool, rebooting, and re-running the setup proved unsuccessful with the same error messages. Nero, I used to rely on you for everything from burning discs to converting my videos to DVD to ripping them from my HD Video Camcorder. Now, I cannot even get it to install. Sorry, 1/1 for the product as it stands now and not what it was.
there was a time when Nero was good about burning, now it is s*** about everything and they want us to pay for this bloat. If you need decent burning software go for ImgBurn, its way Ahead of Nero, its small, fast, doesn't mess with your system (like nero scout...) and its free. Thank you very much.
Bloatware.They say "Simply Create, Rip, Burn, Copy, Share, Back Up, Play, and Enjoy": I just asked for a burning tool.Look at Oldversion: ( =nero) and see how you can change a great, small burning software into a pachidermical 370MB useless, stupid suite with 90% of features you'll never use.No, thanks.
BLOATWARE!!!nero seriously have lost there way, for people like many who wants to choose there individual applications for there task at hand, nero steps on that right,yes one could argue that you can select what components you want to install, but that's not enough, behind the scenes nero still install huge amounts of files which taxes any system it installs to, further more it also installs applications that run on startup of the sytem aswell as services that also run in the background which can't be turned off unless a user knows advance windows functions, for example bringing up services manager and turning them off that way.nero has taken on far to much, and they have destroyed what was once a great peice of software, the install takes forever, there installer is far from smart, if anything it barely does the job (i miss the days when NERO was installed using WinRAR installer.for people that wants a all in one package, then nero is still not the right choice, it just asks to much from even the most powerful system on the market today, and the speed of loading most of these programs are terrible, for example there photo viewer, it takes over 4 seconds to load, irfanview loads in 0.2 seconds on my system, why, because nero has thousand's of files that make it function and they all have to be loaded, which leads onto the next issue, because of the many files that nero requires, it takes up massive amounts of space on any hard drive, gone are the days when nero only took 350+mb for full install, now your looking at over 1GB of data, if not more on any system.and last but not least, is the very terrible update system, nero still downloads far more then it needs to, you would think that if only some of the programs needs updating, then nero would just download those files it needs, but no, nero will download a big massive update package that actually contains loads of files that are already on your system, so in fact, over half of the update package is not actually needed, as only a few of nero's applications needs updating, the rest of the files gets installed even though there only overwritting files that are actually the same versions. the reason why is because there is not much difference from a update package to a demo package.nero has really lost there way, and like someone else has said, it started going wrong for them with the birth of nero 7, although i was still a nero user at that time, but when nero 8 came along with there new Index system (why o why do we need a index system when windows xp and above comes with it's own one, which is far easier, and a lot more efficient due to the fact that it's integrated with windows itself) things just got so bad, i finely had enough, the resources that nero package puts on one's system, and the amount of options in the installer applications that has to be adjusted is to much for any half decent computer user to have to put up with any more.1 is not low enough, i give NERO a big fat 0 (ZERO),nero has lost there way, and i don't think they are finding there true path any time soon.although i am amazed, from a great product that was rated as the best burning suite, has gone to the worse package one could ever conceive, how the mighty has fallen. 2ff7e9595c
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