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Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced [OLD VERSION] Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: 6.6 was good this was horrid
Comment: After long and happy service from 6.6 Ultra, I upgraded when I got a new box
to a copy of 7Ultra I bought a while back,then updated.
I have to say that 7 (thru 7.5) is the worst bloated thing I have ever used.
cleaned it out and went back to 6 express
Positively horrid.
8 appears to have all the same problems, if you look at reviews

YOU SHOULDN"T HAVE TO REBOOT AFTER EVERY BURN
New XPpro install, loaded right after browser, so no conflicts
seems like the searcher and bloatware is searching for something
stops and goes back to work after an hour or after reboot
Last time I use Nero there are better approaches

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Watch out! License problems - Customer Service is POOR
Comment: I've owned Version 7 Ultra for more than a year. Just reinstalled to my new computer and Nero gives me "Patent Activation Failure" (their term for installing the software on more than one computer). Many emails to Nero customer service have gone without reply. Guess once they have your money, that's all that matters. I suggest you try Roxio first.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: worst customer service ever !!!!
Comment: I purchased nero 8. It doesn't install properly and they have the worst customer service I have ever experienced. Over two weeks to get a response to your tech question, or you get to pay $1.29 per minute. I called their regular customer service line and waited on hold until they closed.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Nero Burning Rom is the best burner I have used
Comment: As the title says the Burning Rom program is why I purchased this suite when I already had a "Lite" version of Nero Express. I have used the full version back when it was version 6 and really like the dual directory drag and drop feature. It makes backups of hundreds of digital images very quick and easy.

The install on this utility suite is painfully slow. You will most likely think the system locked up but be patient, very patient and the program will have the entire suite of utilities installed. The program says it will take several minutes but it was almost 40 minutes before it was done.

The package I received is out of date and there is a 7.10.?.? update available for download. You will need a broadband connection since it is packaged as one large 300mb download. Just minutes if you have broadband but over 20 hours if you use a modem like I do.

Customer Service did good and answered my query in about a day regarding the download. The large file is all that is available for Nero 7 Ultra. It was possible to reduce the 300mb to around 220mb using the built-in update program but I can not stay connected for over 20 hours to download a file. They should be a bit more reasonable about that. A lot of folks only have 56k modems to the internet. The slow lane on the super highway I'm afraid.

How difficult is it for them to break it up into several compressed files for downloading???

In closing I will say that the program suite is worth the money but there are issues that you as the consumer should be aware of. I avoided Nero 8 because of the reviews here. So far I am pleased to report I have no bugs with the software as it is installed. The simple media player is actually quite good and better than the two utilities I have from other software.

Good Luck and remember the install is slowwwww!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: German software is not like German beer or German cars, apparently
Comment: I'm glad I got this garbage for free from my workplace with a Not For Resale sample instead of spending money on it. WOW.

All I want to do is burn nice CD's and DVD's and make Lightscribe labels on them. Lightscribe looked like such a cool feature. That's it. Not complicated, right? I used to use an older version of Nero that worked really well (back with version 3, I think) so I tried the latest version. Big mistake.

First, it installed over a DOZEN programs automatically. I actually wanted three of them and the others were either worthless, buggy, or bloated trash of the worst ilk. Think Microsoft Office level bloat, plus Quicktime/RealPlayer style viral invasiveness. It's a truly asinine, take-over-your-system, buggy, fat blob of really bad software. It's set to make itself the default program for darn near everything. Did you have iTunes for your music? Not anymore. Did you like Windows Media Player to play your videos? Not anymore. Nero will take them all over, and install a search bot to slow down your system constantly plus seven programs that practically no one will ever use. Do you need to edit .wav files on a regular basis? Me neither, so please don't install a wav editor program, Nero. I don't want it. I didn't ask for it, and you didn't even ask me if I wanted it. Yes, it's true that these settings are modifiable but I am sick and tired of presumptive companies trying to insinuate themselves all over my computer without asking. It's even worse when their product is garbage.

So before I knew it, I had a huge pile of unwanted programs, with file types all messed up and another dumb search box on my tool bar. Man, what a bad omen.

Ever the optimist, I figured "well, if it works well, I'll just uninstall what I don't want and everything will be fine."

Sure, theoretically. Except that uninstallation is a pain, updates are unbelievably slow and error-prone, and the software is wickedly hard to use.

Nero 7 wasn't Vista compatible when I installed it, so I had to go download the update. Fair enough, since Vista is pretty new and I got the disc a few months ago. Then I found that the ONLY way to update the software is to download the whole suite of bloated programs in FULL! It's 337 MB, for God's Sake! I have a cable internet connection and it still took literally HOURS to get the update. Want to burn a quick CD before taking off on that drive to dad's house? Forget it!

So the next day, I finally had the update downloaded. I ran it, and it informed me that it had to completely uninstall the just-installed software in order to update. Wow. So I clicked "continue," and then when my system rebooted, guess what? A Nero error message popped up (in English, thankfully - more on that later) saying that since Nero wasn't installed on my computer, I couldn't run the update program. Am I taking crazy pills? Are you serious? I didn't know what to do so I re-installed everything from the disc and tried again. For whatever reason, it worked the second time.

Next up, labeling a disc (thankfully, Nero Burning ROM did burn a CD nicely). Figuring out how to make a simple Lightscribe label was just mind-blowing. The default templates make no sense whatsoever. Just getting a readable label out of my burner wasted two entire afternoons and a half dozen blank discs. I know I'm not Bill Gates, but I built my computer and installed my software myself so I'm not a complete rube. Yet I'm still discovering new ways that Nero messes up labels. The default audio disc template gives you a half inch band of usable space around the middle of the disc. You can put more text on the screen, but it won't print, so you're wasting your time. Oh, and the standard font? It's completely unreadable on a Lightscribe disc. Literally - when you click on the disc surface to type some words, the default text settings will result in the final disc being unreadable. God help you if you'd like a track listing printed on the disc. Half the fonts don't line up properly for some reason. You can see that they don't line up when you hit the "print preview" button and your text is all cut up, but before that step, it shows them wrong on the main screen. Why is the standard font unreadable? Why is the default template limited to a tiny strip of text, with no easy way to change it? Seriously, it's kind of ridiculous. Lay off the Oktoberfest celebrations until *after* your software is done, OK Hans?

I bring up the German thing because I kept getting error messages in German. Some were English, some not. My computer is set for American English and there's no reason Nero should spout German errors at me, but it did. I have nothing against the German language, but I can't read it. Is it unreasonable to ask for messages in a language I can read?

I know this review is colored by my frustration with this software, so I apologize. My internal unhappiness meter went off the chart after the sixth wasted Lightscribe disc.
What Nero project manager saw this setup, with its 14 separate modules, clumsy interface, horrible update process, and bug-filled operation and said "THIS is the program of the future! Let's release it at once!"

In conclusion, "Nero = yuck."

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