Erico Baymma,
Often times you must store the files on your computer. Click save, and once saved click run. There are settings in your antivirus and in windows that sometimes prevent file linking. Just try saving first. After install you can delete them.

Erico Baymma, download from GOTD, 1. Open--when download is... completed--that download, 2. THEN...COPY those downloaded files (usually, three), 3. THEN, create a...new folder: named appropriately, 4. THEN, copy those...COPIED FILES to itself, 5. THEN, finally...? Run INSTALL!!! (You'll notice--at least, I do upon my Win 7 computer; XP, I believe--the "Install" file will have changed...COLOR!! Once, it's... colored, IT AUTOMATICALLY connects to GOTD as causes an "Activated" pop-up window... opening: that's...GOOD!) Oftentimes, the Readme file will tell HOW TO "Register"--if that's...required (today's offering doesn't require anything further, however, apparently). And (rarely?) when there's NO .gcd file it (normally, I think) means you can...install: without any copy/paste (new folder...named) protocol--I've found.

Erico Baymma, Have you read #26? IMPORTANT: please note that due to the Themida wrapper usage your installation might be blocked by your antivirus (AVG, Avast or Kaspersky)!

This will result in no program installed on your PC even if your antivirus reports no files are blocked.
In order to install the program, you'll have to temporally disable your antivirus.

dan, I wouldn't.

DoOver, you aren't supposed to be able to re-install a giveaway license AFTER the giveaway... that's the point! If you re-image your PC from a backup image that includes the giveaway then you are good to go, but if you factory re-install for some obscure reason then you'll have to either wait and see if another giveaway of the day occours or you buy the program if you can't live without it!

TK,

Thanks for clarifying for this newbie.

walt, it sounds like you burned a MPEG file or similar video format (m4v, wmv, avi) onto a DVD disc as a data file, similar to any file folder. You need to use the DVD disc authoring mode which writes a DVD Video format to the DVD-R disc. Done correctly, you would have folders & files created on the DVD-R disc which match other standard DVDs.

walt, You should probably use a dvd authoring software.

thanks i use Freemake but always looking for more backups

walt.....what the other dude said. DVD players normally read from disks a certain format, .IFO & .VOB files, from memory. You need to first convert your files then burn them. There are plenty of good free DVD authoring tools out there.

walt, Try WINX dvd author It is a free software, and has always worked for me Change the movie, video to a vob extension, then burn it. you can also burn it with the free winx dvd authoring program.

Judy, oh I don't know....did you try downloading via the link on the webpage? ( I only ask this because I have never used the emailed link yet and what programs I do get from GotD have installed with zero issues.)

I meant to say "on this webpage"...

Hadron, Well, I tried using a different browser and downloading from this website - same result: files are corrupted. So I guess I just wasn't meant to have this software :)

Judy, Possibly you need to extract the downloaded zip file before attempting to run setup. Works for me each time and program is able to read the necessary qcd file contained in the folder.

Ben Cooper, I totally agree. If the author cannot take the time and professional courtesy to make their software fully compatible with other primary system software (ie.antivirus, firewall, OS etc) then they cannot provide reliable software, free of backdoors and other vulnerabilities.

My antivirus "don't get turned off for nobody". That also goes for Microsoft and Adobe stuff too.

PaulB, EXACTLY.

L. Cleveland Major,
WELL when MS decided that XP was worthless, that was when MS became my enemy....... over 100 Million users Worldwide still think so too........tried that loser Vista, then7, then the abortion 8, then it was downhill when they decided 10 was the way to go and made the Service Techs rich with MS forced update trying to keep systems running......
The day I change, guess Apple or Linux will be "my choice".
Bottom line I still have some irreplaceable W3.1 that work on XP with nothing since available, and dozens of XP's that work find..........DOWN WITH MS.
Oh, been using Burnware for some time........works great but hope "updating" don't screw up something.

L. Cleveland Major,
I use free version of this sw on Win 10 without problems...

L. Cleveland Major, I installed it on a Win10-64 Pro.
I did not burn a CD, but the program could read a damage CD.
With other burning program's I could burn DVD and CD in Win10.
The version of today is nice and small. Without many extra's, which are not used most of the times.

beans,
Does ANYTHING work with Vista - haha

beans,

>Will it work with Vista SP3?
Probably, if SP3 comes out for Vista.

Kidding, because Vista never got an official SP3 before Microsoft discontinued development for Vista. There has been a makeshift user-made service pack (SP4) for Vista, but it is not official. It is merely some additional updates packaged together.

There is a SP3 for XP, and likewise a user-made SP4 for XP.

I am sure your main intent is whether this software works with Microsoft's main Operating Systems, and it is great to know that BurnAware has worked and still works with XP and all later Microsoft OSes. It also worked with Windows 2000 and NT, both before XP, however they are no longer listed as being supported. I am pretty sure I had a fairly recent one installed on an XP SP2 and it worked fine.

There are three editions of the software: 1) Free, 2) Premium, and 3) Pro. This is the Premium edition. The only thing the Pro edition gives you is the ability to burn multiple discs at the same time, and it also can be used for commercial use. For personal use, the Premium edition is about you could ever ask for, especially at this price.

beans, do you still have a copy of the Vista SP3 installer ISO you can share via bit-torrent? Microsoft would love to see it... could mean they'd have to start supporting Vista again since Vista SP2 clock ran out.

@ TK

This is a link to the BurnAware changelog -

http://www.burnaware.com/files/changelog.txt

Looks like some important changes in the latest versions.

TK, here's the changelog: http://www.burnaware.com/files/changelog.txt.

Tom S, thanks some significant fixes over the previous giveaway version! I missed the whats new button on the front page as it was hidden by the sites cookie notice. my bad.

greg b, Out of concern, wasn't there a recent published warning about Kapersky (sig) ? Who knows, but I would check on it.

beans,
That's Gov tripe.........Kap finds things that others "miss"........

Edgar,
Yes to write to blu ray, you need a blu ray writeable drive as well as blu ray writeable discs. Hope this helps.

Comparison Chart: http://www.burnaware.com/compare-editions.html.

Geo., ... which is a GOOD thing since giveaways are not entitled to free updates at a later date, and normally if you do try to install any future update it invalidates the giveaway license. MOST vendors leave check for updates automatically selected or don't provide an option to disable it in program. If it's greyed out disabled then that means this is a custom giveaway build that has been honourably thought out!

OAndersen, I think you have to disable antivirus to install it. It mentions it in the readme. I turned off my avast shield temporarily and it installed OK.

OAndersen, READ the README.TXT file it contains information relevant to you!

philb100, Thank you very much for the hint, - that did the trick!!!

Autumn Silvermoon, I had that version as well. For me it seems to have just updated to the new version and in about says registered version so seems Ok..

philb100, Thank you, I guess it's worth the risk of updating my Win XP box, I can always install it in my Win Vista partition on this XP box, it's multiboot. Wish I could put Win 7 on this, and probably could, since supposedly Vista drivers work in 7, but it's ancient tech and I'm not going to mess with that. It only has 2GB memory and I find 4GB constraining in Win 7 on a newer computer.

A sfor the program, honestly it's definitely worth the $19+ even if I have to pay that someday on other coming someday machines. It's so unfortunate I'm having a lot of problems lately with these older machines. I need to redo Windows on all of them except for the Vistas, I multibooted that recently. The downside is that when I do, I'll lose all the old software from these giveaways and I have quite a few of the photography programs on XP that the newer versions no longer support it, so I couldn't even buy the programs for this if I wanted.

I don't use any of the old machines on the Internet except RARELY like for these offers. Definitely no email, social media, and no way in h-e-double toothpicks my financials! :-P But there is nothing wrong with the machines and they do run decently enough for small mundane non-internet tasks. And burning iso's off a USB disk is ok, I have used it for that. So I really appreciate the info, gives me a little confidence it will work. I'll check back later after I get up and see if the developer answers. Otherwise I'll just bite the bullet and go for it. Again thank you!

JohnW2, I had no problem whatsoever installing this to a directory on my D: drive.

JohnW2, well, it's the second screen, right after the EULA. First time you press Next > brings you to the EULA screen, which you kind of found and the second time pressing Next > shows the install path you can change on your own if needed. Nobody can know where you want to have something installed, if you opt to install it where you choose.

Hmmm. Thanks to both of you, but if, in my attempt at installation, I'd have found "that" screen I sure wouldn't have passed the comment in the first place! There must be something else at play here which prevented it showing during the process.

JohnW2, is it possible that you installed an earlier version in a previous giveaway and then chose C: drive before you realised how small the SSD drive really was... and this upgrade installation just picked up the previous installation settings and used them instead of offering you the choice? I have seen that before in other giveaways.
If that is the case just uninstall the program and re-install it and if the option to select install path is in the installers script you should be able to specify where you want the bulk of the files placed. Hope that helps :-)

You surely sound like a genuine, real, unbiased user.

Would have been nice if you linked to a review or two of this program from a reputable website and not just threw around meaningless, worthless statements.