Nero Burning Rom Goes Free!

[mtrftw]

What I don't understand is why the free version can't burn ISOs. I mean, most of the stuff ppl burn is image based, plus it only means you have to burn all the stuff you want right away, there is no save feature for burning stuff later.

Most of the stuff the average joe burns isn't image based. It's going to be audio cds or pictures.

[pixated]

Not sure why anyone would use this. ImgBurn > NERO (and has been for a long time).

[i_was_here]

Wouldn't Nero 5/6 do more than this and still be smaller?

Anyways looks like Nero jumped to the opposite extreme and stripped too many features.

[majortom1981]

between windows 7 burning isos natively and cdburnerxp i dont need nero the made this move too late in my opinion.

[MidnightDevil]

I don't like the express thing either... I enjoyed nero because of the nero burning rom without the express.. plus it got so bloated that I just switched to cdburner xp and I'm very happy with it... but thank's :)

[ViZioN]

I'll stick with Imgburn. Gave up this cludge years ago.

This. I used to use Nero but ImgBurn does exactly what I need :)

[Rappy Veteran]

wow I thought Nero had packed up but good to see its free now! :)

[way2quik]

Express was great way back. With newer technology rolling in, I needed Nero Burning Rom and its other features. The additional bloat to Nero the past many releases became slow (yet still usable for even the cheapest computers out there today).

In a sense, ImgBurn. :)

[Lee G. Veteran]

I'll stick with Imgburn. Gave up this cludge years ago.

Yeah, definitely. Imgburn is brilliant.

[hsraffety]

people buy nero?

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Here's a trick

Download the free version, start to install, get the cd-key.

Back out of the install (don't install)

Grab the most current "update" aka the full file from there site:

http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-update.php

Install, erase the auto generated "trial" key, and past in the key from the free version.

Instant up-to-date version, plus some additional free stuff that doesn't show up on the "free version" aka burn audio cd.

Most other features are still disabled.

Heh.. that actually worked...

[djesteban]

That would of been nice 8 years ago... when Nero was a nice app.

Now, I mean, Imgburn is so much better

[closetgeek]

This free version seems a little pointless, there are much better free alternatives out there, it's far too stripped down to be considered useful, but wow, I never realised how many people despised Nero. I find the features especially editing capabilities of Nero 9 to be invaluable and know of no free app that can do just as much.

[Subject Delta]

Here's a trick

Download the free version, start to install, get the cd-key.

Back out of the install (don't install)

Grab the most current "update" aka the full file from there site:

http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-update.php

Install, erase the auto generated "trial" key, and past in the key from the free version.

Instant up-to-date version, plus some additional free stuff that doesn't show up on the "free version" aka burn audio cd.

Most other features are still disabled.

Interesting, what extra features get enabled apart from burning an Audio CD?

[Tekzel]

CDBurnerXP destroys this piece of crap, and the installer is about 3mb. Hilarious.

[Boeing 787]

Here's a trick

Download the free version, start to install, get the cd-key.

Back out of the install (don't install)

Grab the most current "update" aka the full file from there site:

http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-update.php

Install, erase the auto generated "trial" key, and past in the key from the free version.

Instant up-to-date version, plus some additional free stuff that doesn't show up on the "free version" aka burn audio cd.

Most other features are still disabled.

Thanks !!!!