The DVD burning software Nero evolved from a lighting fast application to burn CDs and DVDs to a bloated monstrosity in the last ten years. The latest versions come with so many modules and additional applications that most users hardly use. Yes, some may appreciate that Nero 9 can convert media files, let users watch multimedia files in the application or create music mixes but most users likely prefer otherwise.
The makers of Nero are now offering a stripped down version of Nero 9 for free on their website. Well, not totally free but if you give up an email address you can download and use the Nero 9 free edition. Nero 9 Free is only offering data disk burning and disk copying functionality. It still has a size of more than 55 Megabytes.
Nero 9 Free can be downloaded from the Nero website, or if that is preferred, from third party download portals like Softpedia where the download is also hosted. The benefit of downloading Nero 9 Free from these download portals is that no email address needs to be supplied before downloading the DVD burning software.
Nero 9 Free turns out to be Nero 9 Essentials which is a version of Nero that gets only distributed with hardware purchases. It should also be noted that the program will suggest to install the Ask Toolbar during installation. Make sure to uncheck the box if you do not want to install it.
Users who prefer lightweight might want to try out alternatives such as ImgBurn, Ashampoo Burning Studio Free or the recommendations in our best free burning software thread. Thanks Dante for the tip.
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Thanks for the news, will try it. I’m still in search for the best burning app for me :)
This is very useful post!
Thanks!
downloaded, installed, 5mins later uninstalled – complete load of bloatware!
I’ll stick with Nero 6.6.1.5d, do a search for Nero-6.6.1.15d_wch.exe, yea it has the weather channel toolbar addon BUT that is an install option at the start.
Provides most of my burning needs.
No Thanks…
I used to love Nero, until the days it became bloatware…
I currently use InfraRecorder and couldn’t be happier. It does everything I need of a burning tool and all in a nice small footprint [3.19 MiB] and it’s 100% free
Nope – it’s a turkey like most Nero bloatware these days. More a marketing exercise than a piece of viable software. The only thing it doesn’t seem to do (easily at least) is actually burn disks – and we don’t need 50meg+ to do that.
Back to Imgburn – might even try Ashampoo. Don’t know why I thought Nero might have been worth installing – I’m a fool to myself sometimes…
Get rid of the marketing and the bloat, Nero – you might get some of your market share back…
I’m a lot happier with CDBurnerXP, especially after reading this:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/07/31/appfail-nero-9-free-of-good-reasons-to-install-it-that-is/
The last version of Nero on my computer was Nero 6. Everything after that was so bloated that it did not make sense to install especially since there were some solid free alternatives. I’m still wondering why they do not release a stripped down version of Nero that only contains the means to perform the basic CD and DVD burning operations. This would please the barebone users who like a fast and lightweight burning software. Everyone else could still install the full package with all the other applications included.
InfraRecorder works great for me, and there’s even a portable version.
Laser media, CDs/DVDs, are essentially the floppy disks of our times. There was not much of a worry with programmes affording to copy files on a floppy. So, it should not be the case with laser media either. Pitty, that Windows XP made such a mess of it.
Surely, there is room for specialist applications, eg. creating audio CDs from mp3s and the like. For these specialist things, which include creating bootable media, I retain a copy of Nero 6.6. I did not mind it, but it fell into disuse because I hate splash screens. So, at some stage I got myself DeepBurner. It does the job.
I will try ImgBurn, if it offers any benefits without forcing me to deal with a learning curve of more than ten minutes I might use it. CDBurnerXP eg., has no such benefits. It presents me with choices for burning a Windows XP installation boot CD. A situation where I don’t want choices but certainty.
Else, I have no clue why a file burner wants a 55MB download. Thanks for the warning, but Nero has anyway faded to the outer periphery of progs I’d consider vital for the future of my computer. Rather close to BeOS and the Mosaic browser.
Infrarecorder here as well. The only benefit from Nero are the few programs that use it for burning, like the open source video transcoder DVD Flick. i almost spit my drink out when i saw the 55MB size of Nero, the free version at that.