Nero is a popular
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Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...
and
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by
Nero AGNero is a global computer software company headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany. The company was founded in 1995 by Richard Lesser. It is perhaps most well-known for its burning software, the Nero Burning ROM....
, formerly Ahead Software.
The principal component of the software bundle is
Nero Burning ROMNero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero Burning ROM.- Products included in the suite :The following applications are included in Nero 9 :...
.
The following applications are included in Nero 9 :
Nero StartSmart
- Nero StartSmart: The central hub for utilizing various applications in Nero suite of applications. As of version 8, Nero SmartStart is able to perform several basic operations without launching any of Nero application, such as simple CD Burning.
Nero Disc Authoring Tools
- Nero Burning ROM
Nero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero Burning ROM.- Products included in the suite :The following applications are included in Nero 9 :...
: The well-known optical disc authoring programOptical disc authoring software is computer software for authoring optical discs including CD-ROMs and DVDs. They are also known by synonyms such as CD burning application or DVD authoring software...
of Nero AG and one of its first products.
- Nero Express: A more simplified incarnation of Nero Burning ROM targeted for starter audience.
- Nero CoverDesigner: Enables users to design and print disc covers.
- Nero BurnRights: Enables administrators to assign required drive access rights to other users.
- Nero DiscSpeed: A disc speed measurement and performance diagnostic tool.
- Nero DriveSpeed: A utility for measuring and fine-tuning various aspects of disc writer drives.
- Nero Info Tool: Helps extracting valuable disc-authoring related system information.
- Nero DiscCopy Gadget: A Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that allows users to perform simple disc-burning operations quickly from Sidebar.
- Nero RescueAgent: Helps recovering files from damaged or partially-unreadable media and restoring files that were accidentally deleted.
- InCD
InCD is packet writing software by Nero AG for Microsoft Windows.InCD allows optical discs to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk. The user can drag and drop files to and from the disk using Windows Explorer, or open and save files on the disk directly from application programs.It supports...
: InCD is a packet writing software that allows optical discs to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk.
Nero Entertainment Applications
- Nero ShowTime: Nero's media player software capable of playing back various types of audio and video files and media, including Audio CDs, Video DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, Nero Digital movies and a wide range of Audio and Video files.
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Nero is a popular
software suiteA software suite or application suite is a collection of computer programs, usually application software and programming software of related functionality, often sharing a more-or-less common user interface and some ability to smoothly exchange data with each other.Sometimes software makers...
for
Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...
and
LinuxLinux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed,...
by
Nero AGNero is a global computer software company headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany. The company was founded in 1995 by Richard Lesser. It is perhaps most well-known for its burning software, the Nero Burning ROM....
, formerly Ahead Software.
The principal component of the software bundle is
Nero Burning ROMNero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero Burning ROM.- Products included in the suite :The following applications are included in Nero 9 :...
.
Products included in the suite
The following applications are included in Nero 9 :
Nero StartSmart
- Nero StartSmart: The central hub for utilizing various applications in Nero suite of applications. As of version 8, Nero SmartStart is able to perform several basic operations without launching any of Nero application, such as simple CD Burning.
Nero Disc Authoring Tools
- Nero Burning ROM
Nero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero Burning ROM.- Products included in the suite :The following applications are included in Nero 9 :...
: The well-known optical disc authoring programOptical disc authoring software is computer software for authoring optical discs including CD-ROMs and DVDs. They are also known by synonyms such as CD burning application or DVD authoring software...
of Nero AG and one of its first products.
- Nero Express: A more simplified incarnation of Nero Burning ROM targeted for starter audience.
- Nero CoverDesigner: Enables users to design and print disc covers.
- Nero BurnRights: Enables administrators to assign required drive access rights to other users.
- Nero DiscSpeed: A disc speed measurement and performance diagnostic tool.
- Nero DriveSpeed: A utility for measuring and fine-tuning various aspects of disc writer drives.
- Nero Info Tool: Helps extracting valuable disc-authoring related system information.
- Nero DiscCopy Gadget: A Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that allows users to perform simple disc-burning operations quickly from Sidebar.
- Nero RescueAgent: Helps recovering files from damaged or partially-unreadable media and restoring files that were accidentally deleted.
- InCD
InCD is packet writing software by Nero AG for Microsoft Windows.InCD allows optical discs to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk. The user can drag and drop files to and from the disk using Windows Explorer, or open and save files on the disk directly from application programs.It supports...
: InCD is a packet writing software that allows optical discs to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk.
Nero Entertainment Applications
- Nero ShowTime: Nero's media player software capable of playing back various types of audio and video files and media, including Audio CDs, Video DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, Nero Digital movies and a wide range of Audio and Video files. UPnP playback is supported.
- Nero Live: A media center
The term media center refers either to a dedicated computer appliance or to a specialized personal computer software, both of which are adapted for playing various kinds of media , and it usually has a Graphical user interface design to be used in living-room TV with a remote control...
application for PCs and media center TVs capable of playing back various media in addition to tuning TV programs.
- Nero Live Gadget, a Windows Vista gadget that allows a smart version of Nero Live to run in Windows Vista Sidebar.
Nero Video Authoring Tools
- Nero Vision: Non-linear video editing tool capable of mixing video clips and authoring DVDs
DVD authoring is the process of creating a DVD video capable of playing on a DVD player. DVD authoring software must conform to the specifications set by the DVD Forum group in 1995...
. The DVD's produced with the software are compatible with a large number of DVD Players.
- Nero Recode: Converts personal video files and non-copyrighted Video DVDs into Nero Digital
Nero Digital is a brand name applied to a suite of MPEG-4-compatible video and audio compression codecs developed by Nero AG of Germany and Ateme of France...
format, which dramatically reduces their size while maintaining their quality.
Nero Audio Editing Tools
- Nero Wave Editor: Audio authoring tool capable of recording, trimming, filtering, mixing and exporting audio.
- Nero SoundTrax: Multi-track
Multi-track may mean:* Multitrack recording, the process of mixing individual sound sources to a single recording* Multi-track diplomacy* Multi track, a process of civil litigation in England and Wales, c.f. fast track....
audio mixingAudio mixing is the process by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics and panoramic position are commonly being manipulated and effects such as reverb might...
tool capable of creating and exporting audio mixes.
Nero Photo Tools
- Nero PhotoSnap: Basic photo editing tool.
- Nero PhotoSnap Viewer: Basic photo viewing tool.
Removed Tools
- Nero BackItUp: A system backup
In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up refer to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event...
utility, Nero BackItUp was an integral part of Nero 7 and Nero 8 suites. As of Nero 9, however, Nero BackItUp 4 is a standalone backup product and is no longer integrated into Nero suite.
- Nero ImageDrive: Nero's virtual drive
A virtual drive in computing is a drive that to the operating system appears to be an ordinary physical disk drive, with disc images substituted for disc reading hardware through the use of software called a disk emulator....
utility that allows users to mount their CD or DVD disk imageA disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, floppy disk, CD, or DVD, although an image of an optical disc may be referred to as an optical disc image...
s into a virtual DVD drive and treat them as with a real media from within other Windows applications. This tool is no longer included in Nero 9.
Bundle naming conventions
The whole bundled suite is called
Nero followed by its major version number and a catchphrase which can vary by country (for example,
Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, or
Nero 7 Premium Reloaded in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
and
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
); however, the core program is still called
Nero Burning ROMNero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero Burning ROM.- Products included in the suite :The following applications are included in Nero 9 :...
.
The most commonly available Nero versions are the OEM suites, which are bundled with many
optical disc recorderIn computing, an optical disc drive is a disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves near the light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from discs, but recent drives are commonly both readers and recorders....
s. Some of these suites
do not include Nero Burning ROM program itself, , leaving the more simplified Nero Express as the main optical disc-authoring program.
See also
- Nero AG
Nero is a global computer software company headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany. The company was founded in 1995 by Richard Lesser. It is perhaps most well-known for its burning software, the Nero Burning ROM....
- Nero Burning ROM
Nero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero Burning ROM.- Products included in the suite :The following applications are included in Nero 9 :...
- Nero Digital
Nero Digital is a brand name applied to a suite of MPEG-4-compatible video and audio compression codecs developed by Nero AG of Germany and Ateme of France...
- InCD
InCD is packet writing software by Nero AG for Microsoft Windows.InCD allows optical discs to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk. The user can drag and drop files to and from the disk using Windows Explorer, or open and save files on the disk directly from application programs.It supports...
- Disk image emulator
- List of optical disc authoring software for alternative programs