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Summary: Back er up
Review: After using several different Burning softwares, I have to say that this may be one of the best. I have a plextor burner, and Nero 5.5 seems to run hand in hand with it. I have burned many mp3's, game software, and cd to cd disk's with no problems. Nero 5.5 is very user friendly: Mostly just drag and drop; Also because it has so many uses, taking very little hard drive space. This is the stuff you use when all your other burning software is in the gutter. 5.5 does what it is supposed to, and does it well. It is a good crutch to lean on.
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Summary: Much better than Easy CD Creator
Review: I bought Easy CD Creator 4 Deluxe about 6 months ago. It was better than what initially came with my burner. After a few hardware upgrades, I was lucky to make 1 CD out of 20 attempts.I could NOT make it work anymore (under Windows 2000). I moved the Burner to another machine and install a fresh copy of Win98se (since ECDC doesn't play well with w2k), it wouldn't even recognize that a clean disk was in there. I flashed the BIOS on the machine, made sure Win98 was completely patched, etc. Once I downloaded the trial version of Nero - WOW it worked the first time AND burned at the full 16x that the CD-R is capable of. The UI is a little hard (compared with ECDC), but it works. I'm sold and ordering this software right now.
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Summary: ideal for all types of burning
Review: To put it lightly my experience with cd burning got off to a bad start about 3 years ago. Until Nero never did I think you could burn an audio cd directly from mp3z. I used to waste the hard drive space and create the wav files and afterwards delete them. Now days I can burn vcd's, svcd's, data cd's, audio cd's , etc., with ease. Thanks Nero. I have only one complaint about Nero, when you wanna buy it you can't find it.
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Summary: Nero the Best By Far
Review: Nero has been the ideal burning program for me. There is a wizard if you like that feel, but for the more technical, Nero offers a very indepth assortment of tweaks and adjustments to meet the user's needs. I have never had any problems with it although I have not let it add anything like the boot menu to my system. If you want a great burning program that allows for great in depth control and configuration get Nero!
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Summary: Finally a Burner that works
Review: I installed easy CD and had nothing but problems, then I down loaded Niro from the web cite and it's been great!! Finally a Buring proigram that works. I've orderred 5.5 from amazon. My advice: Stay away from Easy CD, Buy Niro instead. It's a simpler program but it works.
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Summary: May Not Install on Windows 2000
Review: I downloaded the version 5.5 demo from the Ahead web site and installed it on my Window 2000 machine. Installation went fine, but when my system re-booted, I got a KMODE mode error and could not complete booting without entering safe mode or debug mode. I looked at the Ahead website for information about the error. Their help files mentioned that this error could occur but was worded as if even they were not sure what the problem was. I recommend anyone who is thinking about installing this on a Win2000 machine to first download the demo and see if it will install correctly. Be sure to backup your registry before you install or you will continue to receive the error even after you uninstall the program. If you don't back up the registry, at least install it early in the morning. If the program fails, uninstall using Add/Remove Programs, then do a search for all files created for the current day and delete those files. This is what I had to do to get my computer working normally again. Good Luck.
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Summary: DONT INSTALL "NEW" "BOOTMENU ADDON FOR NERO BURNING 5.5
Review: I waited for Nero5.5 to be released, downloaded the demo today, stalled it, and then downloaded the "NEW" BOOTMENU addon, which supposedly creates a simple bootmenu to allow choosing NERO or some other already installed burning software (e.g. EZ C-D Creator in my case) at boot time, so as to prevent conflicts over control of the CD writing hardware. NERO5.5 seemed to install just fine (I have a DELL B533r, with 129 RDRAM, and Sony CD-RW installed). but then..... I decided to install the BOOTMENU.exe provided at their site. I did so, encountered the "not enough environment memory" error, which is normal, not a problem, increased the memory allotment to the UPDATE.BAT as instructed in the readme, and finished the install of BOOTMENU. I rebooted. The boot menu did come up OK. I selected option "2" (OTHER), instead of "1" (NERO), and pressed enter. The usual Windows wavy clouds screen came up as Windows proceeded to try to load. It couldn't. The drive light stayed on (flashing quickly), and a sound from the drive I've neve heard before began and the Window wavy clous screen just stayed there forever: Windows could not load. Great. Fortunately, I had a Win98 boot disk (actually I had downloaded and made the "Ultimate Boot Disk" from the web (I strongly recommend this disk over the default Win98 boot disk). I booted from the Ultimate Boot floppy, closed the default menu screen, leaving me at A:\ prompt. I changed from the A: directory to where I had unzipped the NERO BOOTMENU install files. As it said in the README.txt file there, yes there was an uninstall BAT file. Still in DOS, but now at D:\INSTALL\NERO, where the uninstall bat file was located, I typed in the name of the bootmenu uninstall .bat file ("UNINS_BM"). Pressed enter. ERROR msg: "WARNING YOU REMOVED THE BACKUP FILE OF THE CONFIG.SYS FILE. YOU HAVE TO RESTORE THE FILE MANUALLY. REMOVE THESE LINES FROM CONFIG.SYS.... Great. Fortunately, Ultimate boot disk (UBD) makes it a very easy matter to edit, in DOS, the config.sys file. I have no idea how to use DOS (commands, etc). But I just figured out the fortunately intuitive menu of UBD, and eventually was able to change directories to C:, load the config.sys there into the UBD editor window, backspace my way through all the lines I was suppoed to remove (in my case this left an empty config.sys file, as it always was), pressed "save", closed the UBD dos editor window, took out the floppy disk, and rebooted. Whew. Back to normal, at long last. DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT INSTALL THE NERO BOOTMENU ADDON, UNLESS YOU HAVE ENOUGH DOS FAMILIARY TO FIX IT IF IT CRASHES YOUR SYSTEM, LIKE IT DID MINE. I have no opinion yet on whether NERO 5.5 is good or not. This is my first experience with AHEAD software. Not a great beginning. Bewarned.
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Summary: Waste of money and time
Review: Could not even figure out how to burn a music CD. Have actually uninstalled the thing. Have used Roxio and this just does not compare...
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Summary: From skeptical to greatly satisfied!
Review: Ok. I never buy from the internet. I don't trust it! I decided to give this seller and Amozon a try figured it would be worth the investment to determine if one could actually purchase a product from the web and get what you paid for. I waited less then expected for my software to arrive. When it did arive the package was new and orderly. In fact I was given a freebee, which I verry much appreciated! Everything felt right. Installed it with no real problems. Now you couldn't hold me back from buying from Amazon and especially this seller again. They will be my first choice to search before I go anywhere else! Nothing else to say but, Thank you!
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Summary: grrrrrr!
Review: I am a software tech., and have been known to chase the "high tech" rainbow. Moral- If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Bottom line first!- I feel you should stay away from the "latest" NERO & Roxio 6 offerings until they get the bugs worked out, and you see no negative reviews! I suspect that the few good NERO/Roxio 6 reviews, were written by their employees or associates! This holds true on most "mixed" hardware/software reviews. An optimist believes the good reviews, and a realist- the worst! Amazon has the BEST review site!
My rant-
I have a newer DELL computer- winXP, SP2, 2.2ghz, 40mb hd.
NERO 5.5.3 worked "pretty good" (sometimes "weird" errors, but excellent "advanced" options!), with my old CD-RW/DVD. DELL replaced my old defective Samsung SM-332 drive, with a newer Samsung SM-348b. Per NERO 5 installation instructions-
I first did a COMPLETE software uninstall- used the NERO 5 Driver-clean tool"S", downloaded from- http://www.ahead.de/en/631938347293151.html ... Made sure there were no other CD folders/programs/spyware... Then did a NortonSystemWorks 2004 Pro cleanup (deleted 31 invalid nero registry entries).
Then did a clean re-install of the NERO 5.5.3 CD software, downloaded/installed the latest 5.5.10.54 XP patch, before using.
When I tried to burn (copy) a CD, it came back and said I must use the software that came bundled with my CD-RW/DVD. HUH?
I then did another complete NERO software uninstall, and then installed the Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6, supplied by DELL. DISASTER!
Crashed my XP system, and I had to reformat & reinstall winXP.
I finally successfully went back to my original OEM Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.2 basic, with the latest downloaded updates (Go ahead and install this, even though it says that this operating system is not supported). This program works good for basic burning, but does not have the neat NERO 5.5 Bells and whistles!
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