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Submitted by catmistake on March 26, 2007 - 7:41pm. Other Computers

I'm in the middle of a nightmare migration. New, craptastic, Dells. I oblitereated the preinstall (XP 64), and used my own (XP 32, only so I could more easily keep track of keys... 1 site license easier than 50 individual). Migrated users are already asking for a burning program (its been, like, a week... uuughhh).

The preinstall, of course, came with Roxio software. LOVE Roxio on Macs... despise it on PCs. Blew it away.

I am looking for some free (not shareware/commercial)
data/picture/music/video CD/DVD burning software that is well-behaved, with a clean and not incomprehensible interface, and doesn't make a complete f-ing mess upon installing. I realize that the standard on the Windows platform is that every software installer seems to install a bunch of crap you neither want or need all over everywhere, but I'm holding out for GOOD software. I know its out there...

I need you guys... thx.

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I've been using the craptasti

Submitted by hackintoshg4 on March 26, 2007 - 7:53pm.

I've been using the craptastic free Roxio on my pc because I haven't found any easy to use complete burning software. Nero is the best, but too expensive. I'm sure someone knows of a free one.

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free Roxio complete?

Submitted by catmistake on March 26, 2007 - 7:57pm.

I didn't think the free Roxio software was complete... I thought it had some annoying limitations. Honestly, it's the interface that turns me off... but if it will do data/picture/music/video, I'll need to reconsider it (once I get some suggestions to compare it to). Thanks.

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I use the Sonic record now th

Submitted by redrouteone on March 26, 2007 - 8:16pm.

I use the Sonic record now that came with my ThinkPad. Granted it's not nero but for what I need it works great.

I don't think that it is free though.

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XP has native support for CD

Submitted by Dr. Webster on March 26, 2007 - 10:26pm.

XP has native support for CD writers right in Windows Exporer, and users can burn audio CDs through Windows Media Player.

If you need advanced burning options, Nero is a decent program, and not too expensive IIRC.

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CDBurnderXP Pro

Submitted by coius on March 26, 2007 - 10:36pm.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

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cd burner xp pro

Submitted by reklus on March 26, 2007 - 10:39pm.

I second.
Crappy-ish interface, great functionality.
Kinda like the VLC of cd burning software.

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I've had extremely good luck

Submitted by drbob on April 21, 2007 - 5:04am.

I've had extremely good luck with Nero.

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Buy a LG CD/DVD Burner and it

Submitted by Remiel on April 23, 2007 - 7:50am.

Buy a LG CD/DVD Burner and it will come with Nero 6 or 7 OEM edition. This edition should work on most drives. Currently, I have used Nero 7 LG OEM to burn to Pioneer, LG, Liteon, TSSCorp and Mitshita drives. Most optical drives are now made from about 2-3 companies so OEM editions are not as locked as before, it used to be that older OEM bundles would only work with a specific drive.

The Nero edition it ships with is Express/Essentials. It uses a wizard based GUI to allow users to burn image file, data CD's, audio cd's and more.

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