User manual NERO NERO 8 QUICKSTART

[. . . ] Ç QUICKSTART GUIDE www. nero. com Nero 8 English ENGLISH Copyright and Trademark Information The Nero 8 QuickStart Guide and all its contents are protected by copyright and are the property of Nero AG. This QuickStart Guide contains material that is protected by internationally valid copyright. No part of this QuickStart Guide may be reproduced, transmitted or transcribed without the express written permission of Nero AG. All trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Nero BackItUp can create bootable discs and, if necessary, it can restore a previously backed up system. 1. 5 Nero Tools Nero Tools includes the programs Nero ControlCenter, Nero BurnRights, Nero ImageDrive, Nero DiscSpeed, Nero DriveSpeed, Nero InfoTool and Nero RescueAgent. Nero RescueAgent is the new tool that quickly and easily restores data on CDs and DVDs that are damaged by scratches or no longer readable due to age. On multi-session discs and discs that were formatted for the UDF file system, you can also restore deleted data and older versions of data and save it on your computer. Nero ControlCenter allows you to determine whether new updates for your Nero Suite are available. Also, you can select a language or languages and install features at a later time. In addition, you have the option of modifying the existing installation of Nero 8, retrieving information about serial numbers, and deleteing or adding serial numbers. ® As of Windows 2000, Nero BurnRights allows a system administrator to grant users without administrator rights permission to burn discs and connect new burners. This is necessary as users without administrator rights do not have access to the drivers needed for burning discs or for connecting new burners. The virtual drive is visible in the Windows Explorer and can be used just like any other drive. An image contains a complete CD or DVD and can be created with Nero Burning ROM, for example. Depending on the content of the loaded image, you can open and display files and run programs from the virtual drive. Nero ImageDrive offers fast drive emulation and can automatically load an image when your computer starts up. Nero ImageDrive supports up to two drives simultaneously: CD and DVD disc types as well as image ® formats NRG and ISO. Nero DriveSpeed allows you to set the reading speed of discs and thereby noticeably reduce the noise level. The spin-up and spin-down times of the drives can also be optimized so that damaged files can still be read, for example, or game discs accessed with greater speed. Nero InfoTool allows you to call up information about the most important features of installed drives, inserted discs, installed software and much more. You obtain detailed data on drive properties such as firmware, buffer size, serial number, production date and, for DVD drives, the current DVD region code. Nero InfoTool tells you the names and version numbers of the operating system, the ASPI manager, the installed burning applications, Nero 8 English, page 11 ENGLISH sion sets) to create a unified media center. This gives you the option of viewing transmitted television programs via Nero MediaHome on two players simultaneously (multi-room viewing). Nero MediaHome automatically supplies the files in the appropriate format to the player in question. The Nero Suite and it provides information about the hardware configuration of your computer. Furthermore, Nero InfoTool supports screen reader technology, an alternative user interface for the blind and visually impaired that acoustically outputs text elements on the screen. 1. 6 Nero 8 Suite Gadgets Nero DiscCopy ® Windows Vista features so-called Gadgets which appear in the sidebar or on the desktop and are a quick and easy way of executing frequently required operations. Nero DiscCopy ® is one of these gadgets for Windows Vista , and allows you to easily copy and burn discs directly or store them as an image file. [. . . ] Make sure that the check box for regular automatic updates is checked. Enter the number of days after which the automatic update should be performed in the corresponding text field and click the OK button. The update check for Nero Suite is actually a feature of the Nero ControlCenter tool provided in Nero StartSmart. With Nero ControlCenter you can also set the language for your Nero Suite, enter additional serial numbers and perform subsequent setup settings. [. . . ]