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I've been experiencing some weird problem with it (it prevents windows from shutting down) so I've decided to move on to something else.

I had some good experience with Nero 6 but I find the new version way too bloated. Is there any other choice? I need a software that can handle data disc burning, cd/dvd copying and image burning (save cd/dvd's to hard drive).

Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

Regards,
Tony

Hi Ulrich,

What about Burnaware, I think the freeware version does all that you require (and more!!!!), have a look at the info page here :-

http://www.glorylogic.com/overview-free.html

If you find it suitable the download page is here :-

http://www.glorylogic.com/download-free.html

Hope this is of some help.

Speak to you soon.

bishy.

Nero v7.2 for burning and Alcohol 120% v1.9.6 for image management (and virtual drive) is my choice that keeps me peaceful....
You can make custom instalation with Nero and chose what app to install (i skip most of them...)

Small and lightweight - http://cdburnerxp.se/

Need .Net 2/3 to install it.

ulrich.von.lich wrote:I had some good experience with Nero 6 but I find the new version way too bloated.

With any recent version of Nero you can just install the parts you need and leave the rest out.

Nero 8 has a lot of parts, but if you only install the basic burning set its foot print is fine.

Cheers,

Bill B.

ISORecorder will copy discs and create/burn ISO's. It has a super light footprint and is simple to use.
XP will make data cd's natively.

cd2iso
DeepBurner
ImgBurn

(also echo Bll's suggestion to do a custom install of Nero).

Anecdotally, we've been using Sonic RecordNow on nearly all of our Dell Latitudes at work. It works just fine and we don't have the problems you are experiencing.