Tired of Nero-Burning - Alternatives?

/OT on
And again a blown up application which got killed
SnagIt killed
FastStone Screen Capture Freeware installed 1.2MB.

Imazing program
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We should open a special Thread for this kind of discussion.

 

I agree! FastStone SC is (IMO) the best free screen capture utility now out!

Too bad Nero Express 6 is not somehow available. I know it's not small but IMO, it offers perhaps the best overall options of anything mentioned so far. To date, I have never had problems with my copy. I have tried CDBurner XP Pro, Deep Burner and the Silent Night Micro CD Burner and always come back to Nero...

 

To burn ISO images, I use terabyte freeware BURNCDCC and it can verify as well.

 

I totally agree with u. I use FS image viewer as well to edit these snapshots later.

 

And it's a good alternative for Nero-Burning. (just kidding)

 

Please no more OT comments -- the topic is Nero-Burning - Alternatives

Thanks in Advance;

Steve

 

Choosing between 3 isn't so bad. How about making it 4?
Before I found BurnAtOnce, I was trying Fireburner. I was using version 1.06 at the time. Has a fully functional trial period. Incredibly small file, 446kb zip file! Until I tried it, I thought it was a corrupted download, too small, or so I thought. Haven't tried the newer version, but 1.06 is unzip and go. Interface is a bit strange, could be better, but it burned everything I asked of it. Would have bought it had I not found BAO. Give it a look. It redefines compact software.
Rick

 

More complicated decicion . I know fireburner well; i used is also some years ago, it's main pupouse was burning Audio-Cds.
But i think i stay with BAO and ImgBurn for the dayly stuff. 'Burrn' for burning music, and some special freeware if i need to backup DVD, which is not very often the case.
In total about 12 MB

 

hi all


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Alright folks

Knight

 

I was a long time user of Nero but I stopped late last year
I've tried all the programs mentioned here plus some more
but I finally went for Padus Discjuggler and never regreted it
Does everything I want it to do + some

www.padus.com/

 

@twhk000

Can u boot from these mounted images in any way?

 

i dont think so.

alcohol lets you create a virtual drive so u can mount the images in Windows.

 

copyToDVD is a good replacement of nero


here is the link http://www.vso-software.fr/

best regards

 

Prassi ONES is excellent, just like the older Prassi which I truly missed, have dumped NERO for bloat and switched to this one for good now, best of all, works equally well on my 965 motherboard with the pesky 3rd party J Micron IDE controller on XP64, most are having problems with Nero when J Micron is there.

 

No you cant boot from the mounted images.....


Knight
Ps i have never tried presuming that you cant boot...try pls and let us know all