Well I just installed it on my girlfriend's computer as quick as possible so she could have a CD to take with her. Reasonable, unnecessary to tell, and pure simplicity right? Yes. Burning the CD went fine. It is/was the installer that has my panties in a bind.
When it started I put in my serial number (which it had actually pre-populated in the correct field) and went with Custom install just to see what it was doing. I left all the options except the file associations unchanged. With those Nero wants to literally take over handling every god damn media format on your machine. I'm surprised it doesn't open PowerPoint or Flash, the fucking thing is like a blob consuming everything.
Anyway, no thank you Nero, I just want to run you when I run you.
Reboot? Fine, whatever.
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Wait a second, you've taken over all the file associations! AUGH! Now when I click an MP3 it conveniently pops up their player which is neither intuitive or eye pleasing. It even has a splash page. Fuck! Okay, don't panic. I'll just start burning this CD and try to figure out how to remove its tentacles at the same time.
First thing I notice going down the Start menu tree is that the folder is called "Nero 7 Demo". What the fuck? I put in my serial number! I own this damn thing! Upon running Nero Express (the very reason I bought this whole suite of shit, and unfortunately I couldn't find where to buy it by itself) I get a dialog telling me my trial version will expire on 1/10/2007. Awesome, that's just peachy. It has a field for my serial number which has, this time, been pre-filled with "demo". I correct that and it closes, removes its Start menu folder, and then adds a new one called "Nero 7 Ultra Edition".
At this point I'm starting to swear ... more. Ultra Edition appears to be a synonym of Pine Cone In Your Ass. I'm sure something got lost in translation to English is all. I managed to get the CD burning without any issues, thankfully Nero Express is little changed beyond the UI being less responsive. (Is this in .NET perchance? I noticed it made sure the Framework was installed.)
While the disc fire was going on I hunted for some sort of central Nero configuration to remove the file associations and could not find it for some time. Eventually I found you have to re-run setup which is even available on their Start menu folder. Apparently people need to do this fairly often. I mean, they know to do that right?
So I run setup again ... this time I come back to the same wastefully wizardy pages and perform the same actions (fine, fine, uncheck all associations, fine, done). And guess what happens? It's pure genius! It does nothing. All the associations are the same and when you run setup, all the checkboxes are checked as if they were always that way.
The CD is done by this point so I'm free to take more drastic actions. What's the worst that can happen? I run setup and set everything except Burning Rom to not be installed. This is actually more time consuming than it sounds. Everytime you hit one of those little drop-down menu's it chokes momentarily and there's perhaps a dozen to go through. With this all settled I click Next and the installer proceeds to gobble system resources for a few minutes before taking me to where the file association settings used to be.
And they're gone! Glory be! I did it!
Smug and satisfied I decide I won't write a blog entry, and open the My Music folder to verify my handiwork.
DaH! The icons ... they're Nero's ... NOOOOOOOOO ...
Yup, that's right. It left behind its lovely icons, but they're no longer associated with anything. It completely destroyed whatever had opened them before. This goes for GIF's, JPEG's, MP3's, WMA's, MPG's, WMV's, etc. etc. etc.
Holy crap Nero, what the fucking hell happened to you!? I wish I had never bought your product and I hope I never have to buy one again.
18 comments:
I was searching for a solution to fix that file associations problem with nero when I stumbled upon ur website. I hate to say I can't agree with you more.
Goodbye nero it was nice while it lasted.
Nero was a person. He set Rome ablaze and watched it burn as he played his violin. That is where Nero:Burning Rom comes from, it's like Nero:Burning Rome.
There is even worse. I had nero 7 installed and tunning fine, all assiciations OK. Then, it told me thre were updates and if I wanted to download and install them. I thought, why not, still some bigs in there, so I gave it a shot. It ran for ages, downloaded megs of patches, requested a reboot and... all associations were gone. The update process never asked a single question...
I think I'll do like some of you di: uninstall every component but those I actually bought the programme for...
I got here by a search for "Nero 7 sucks". I guess I should have done the search before naively going ahead and updating, but anyways, by writing this, you've simply saved me the trouble of writing exactly the same thing.
Except you forgot to mention the two(TWO!) crappy ass toolbars(weather.com and As(s)k.com) that it wanted to install.
Nero 7 Sucks. Any time a program gets in a fight with its users, it has lost, right?
I'm probly the the one millionth peso they have duped over two billion times.The product has a place in the future but it really is dishonest... must be a democrat monster on the make
Im not sure if you did experience this but I think those running near obsolete PCs will find that somehow Nero managed to fuck up some stuff in the codecs. For every video, it will fast-freeze randomly causing several frames to be skipped.
Yes, I'm a victim. Frig you Nero. May your company go kaputz.
Entertaining read. I seriously don't know why Nero is so 'popular', it's used all over the corporate world and it's just rubbish, trying to keep environments 'standard' with trash like this is torture. I will never buy a nero product, EVER.
I don't know about ver7 but Nero 8 Ultra is a total POS! It's overbloated beyond words and the interface is equally mind-numbing. I uninstalled it and found so much garbage, I downloaded their removal tool (which probably needs a removal tool, as well). It still left a bunch of crap in my registry, which took nearly 2 hours to clean. It also adds a BHO to Internet Explorer which transmits your serial key to an IP address. I had to remove it manually with Hijackthis after I uninstalled the program. GRRRRRRRR!!! Nero 8 is a sloppy program and not worth anyones hard earned money or trouble! Now, I use UltraISO and no more problems.
I can't believe how many people have the same fucking problem. I switched to Nero 6 long ago and loved it. Nero 7 came bundled with my new cd/dvd writer so I installed it, trusting the nero software and name. What a huge mistake. I have the same file assocation nightmare that previous users have described. All associations were as I intended after the initial install, but after a web update, with no warning or question whatsoever, the shit software replaces every fucking file association that I have meticulously paid attention to for the last 3 years. I want .wav files to open with mplayer2.exe. I want mp3's to open with winamp. I want .wma's, .mpeg's and .avi's to open with windows media player. That's just my liking. I need a good cd/dvd burning utility. Anybody got any favorites?
Nero Essentials...... what a joke.... Why would anybody want any of these pointless extras!..... Uninstalled straight away... i just hope theres no side affects!...
Couldn't agree with you more.. why the fuck would I want a CD burning program to open jpg, mpg, avi, wmv, asf, png, tiff, .[Name your media] files?! Just burn my damn CDs and go away. I'm so sick of software trying to be everything to everyone and doing a half ass job at it. Now back to fixing these associations.
Can't believe that the developers haven't seemed to figure out yet that people don't want all of their shit under the control of ONE PROGRAM.
Don't install Nero Essentials!!! I found this blog by searching for "Nero shit" ;). I'm working with computers since around 10 years. I work in a IT industry and bought a new PC for my friend. I installed all necessary software and becuase I got Nero with DVD, I've decided to install it (I remember that I liked Nero Express in Nero 5(?) a lot) and skipped choosing which parts of Nero to install (my mistake). When installation took a couple of minutes I started to worry, it turned out that it takes over 500MB on my computer and I got some stupid toolbatrs as well. Nero also asked me to associate all files with it (!). Ok, that's enough: I've decided to uninstall it. In the middle of this process an exception occured and after restarting XP showed me a couple of errors during startup. I tried to repeat unistallation process and guess what? I can't uninstall it because Nero tells me that I have already newer version of Nero installed and I should uninstall it first. What a joke. I removed it manually, deleted everything from registry and installed ImgBurn. I'll never install Nero again, please people stop using this shit.
(Sorry for my english, it's not my native language.)
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I stumbled upon this page in search for "how to remove NERO file associations"... Wow, i though i was the only person experiencing these agony!
Comments and stories in this site makes me laugh aloud! Cant help but to agree with you guys! my experience with Nero Sucks! I would like to add the Nero scout agent, it used all my processing power (75% of my Quadcore power).. it really really makes me feel angry!
I am sorry to use anonymous but I am in a hurry. I REALLY appreciate everyone's comments here about NERO. I think it sucks as well. I am particularly ticked at the file association issue. I can't get rid of it. I was going to try the NERO removal tool to see if it would work but a previous blogger here said that was a nightmare as well. Now I don't know what to do. Any more suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks
Hi, I had the same problem after installing Nero 9, I have Objectdock and use some *ICO as Icons after installing Nero 9 they went to that blank image thing and when I did a search for *.ICO in XP windows explorer I noticed all my *.ICO's were not showing their images anymore, I came across this page but after I came across another and I downloaded the zip file for restoring *.ICO back to XP default and IO'm pleased to say it worked! :) so here is the link for restoring XP file associations back to XP
http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm
Regards
Ron
I have gone through them all..but Nero 9 is the worst by far...
Bloatware with a capital B! Takes so much time to load on my Pentium IV, that you would think I was using one of the first Pentiums that came out...Then the hijack of every file association on the list...I am afraid I will not upagrade to any other nero for as long as I live.
I will probably install version 7 or 6. Happy to see I am not alone in this complaint...Lets tell Nero now.
Thanks for reading.
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