Free DVD Burner: DEEP BURNER

The last time I was talking about free DVD burner's was with Express Burn. Now it turns out Express Burn is not exactly free. The download is fully working for 14 days. After that period of time it expires and you are restricted to only buring CD's. It's kinda freeware but actually just shareware. Annoying, but fine if you only need to burn audio CD's.

Well anyway, no need to worry! If you want a completly free DVD burner with no restrictions and compatibility with Windows Vista, you should use DEEP BURNER.

It burns CD's and DVD's but not HD DVD or Blu Ray. But it's stable and very good. It actually looks like the front end of that other freeware burner Final Burn - except slightly more polished and presentable.

Go download DEEP BURNER here.

Remember: it's freeware.

Crappy Vista burner software

I was trying to burn a Data DVD today using the burner software that came preinstalled with Windows Vista. It is completely crap! It took almost an hour of waiting just for the files to transfer to the burner. And I cannot believe that they decided to use a caveman-style drag and drop way of adding folder/files to the burn list. Anyway, when it eventually tried to to the actual burning to DVD it got about three quarters of the way before failing and giving me a "failed burn" warning. It also said that the disc in the drive was faulty. What a load of crap!
Well I'd had enough and installed Final Burner, the FREE burning program. It burned the disc correctly in about 10 minutes.
Why the hell did Microsoft include such a poxy burning software program? Once again FREE SOFTWARE comes to the rescue.

Visit Dwarfed Films Essential Freeware and download Final Burner.

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DVD/CD burning software

What is it with burning software? I don't know how many times a DVD burn has failed or been unable to "write short lead out". It is so annoying!
I used to burn DVD video files with Magix. Trouble was it kept failing even when the program was reinstalled a few times.
Then I started to use Cyberlink DVD which worked alright for a bit (even though the DVD designs layouts were basic) until it too started acting up.
Well now I only use Ulead DVD Workshop for burning video DVD's and (so far) it hasn't let me down yet. And it's fast!
Now, burning a data CD/DVD used never be an issue. I was using Nero for that and it was pretty reliable. I'd put the occasional bad burn down to a faulty disk. But again recently Nero has been causing problems - bad file writes and sometimes even causing the computer to crash.
So the solution: a freeware program called Final Burner. It is only about 2mb in size, has a funtional layout and most importantly is very reliable. Here is the what the makers say

FinalBurner is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners.
Its users will benefit from the opportunity to create data, audio,
and video disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW,
DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL. No tedious or confusing configuration needed.
You just select a few main settings and start burning. FinalBurner's
artificial intelligence will find the perfect recording balance.

Final Burner can rip from CD's, burn DVD video and data CD/DVD just like it's expensive commercial rivals. The protected soft website offer other programs and some of them are commercial or "pro" editions with extra features but do yourself a favour and just go for the freeware versions. (Note: Final Burner Free is for personnal use only).

Download Final Burner here.