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Thread ID: 86377 2008-01-14 22:32:00 Nero's Web site sucks Digby (677) PC World Chat
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630290 2008-01-17 03:54:00 Demo is downloadable and they sell to New Zealand also. Just change the location.

I am not dumb and have been using software for 25 years. A good web site would have told me to choose my location not just said only USA, Canada or Mexico.

regards

Digby
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630291 2008-01-17 04:02:00 Nero's official status post v6.6 is "bloatware". I'd look at getting lite freeware alternatives like DeepBurner and CDBurnerXP.

Thanks for that suggestion.

I have downloaded CDBurnerXP and am currently testing it.

I had to download and install Microsoft's .NET software which took ages and is 60 meg !

I have noticed two shortcomings with it so far....

Firstly it does what my old Nero 6 does and that it, after you have burned a DVD if you do not exit out of the software fairly soon after it finishes the burn job it is then a bit of a chore to exit out as the program goes into the Not responding mode and it takes about 10 clicks to close it down.

(Nero 8 lite does not do this and allows you to exit several hours later !)

Secondly I could not see an easy method to burn a couple of folders to a DVD. That is I want to burn folder A and folder B. It will let me select all the files in these folders but I want to keep them separate on the DVD. It may do it but I could not find out how to do it in a few minutes of looking round. So to me that shows it is not well written software.

regards

Digby
Digby (677)
630292 2008-01-17 08:08:00 You can download the trial version and then buy a cd key off them which they'll email to you Agent_24 (57)
630293 2008-01-17 08:25:00 This burning program came in one of my feed emails the other day -
BurnAware Free Edition (www.snapfiles.com) Writes to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray and write Audio CD's/DVD-Video files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and more. Supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 Bit)...
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