Hello lads, Introduction: As you know Nero Burning Rom package became quite bloated. I only need Burning Rom which is about 35.6mb uncompressed, but I'm forced to download/install 900mb still uncompressed file. This is absurd and unforgivable. I tried many builds "alternative" builds of Nero, that is the infamous lite or micro build from updatepack.nl....too bad the project is kinda halted. Due all respect to the current build, it seems there have been alot of trial and error going on...too much to my liking. I started experimenting with the Nero less-than bloated package, the 6.6.1.15c to be exact. Procedure: Downloaded it from filehippo, extracted all the files from the archive using winrar. Then deleted pretty much everything, actually the only folder you need is the <Nero> folder By the way the installer <setupx.exe> doesnt work after the deletion. I ran the Nero.exe from the <Nero> folder and it worked straight out of the box!! Then I used it to erase a DVD-RW disc and write something to it and guess what... No problems at all. After that I copied the <Nero> folder to <Progam Files> and make a shortcut to start menu. (I'm an organized creature) For Nero Express shortcut, make a new shortcut pointing to <Nero.exe> and add "/w" in full: "C:\Program Files\Nero\nero.exe" /w Registering Nero You need to add some registry entries to register Nero permanently, otherwise its going to ask you every time to fill in the serial. The following entries worked for me(ofcourse with another serial): ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\1.0] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\CleanTool] "Minimum Version"="1.1.6.4" "ProductId"=dword:00000003 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\General] "Dump3"="" "Dump5"="0a181d00046a080c63707123282f1171050b1e7b64" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Info] "Serial6"="xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" "User"="Username" "Company"="Company" ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Thanks to j7n by providing some feedback and reminded me of this... Closing thoughts: Side notes: This procedure is not point-and-click friendly, its more useful as an from the scratch deployment like placing it in the $OEM$ folder(see unattended guide of msfn for more info). I haven't been here for awhile, so maybe there is someone who had this idea before...consider this as blog-type guide. Its been tested in an Virtual Machine running Windows XP PRO. Have fun burning
