Times have really changed -- nowadays, once a month I plug in my Blu-ray drive, archiving files to a DVD [still the most reliable long term storage available]. I used to do a LOT more, but all of that stuff, like designing, authoring, & burning advanced DVDs, is a fading memory. I'll always remember the thrill of installing the 1st CD drive, connecting it to the new soundcard it took a week+ to get working on our 286. I used to keep Nero Ultimate current, buying it once a year on sale for ~$35, but it hasn't been available in that price range for a few years now, and my copy of Nero 2020 has become buggy & unreliable. The free, portable ImgBurn [imgburn[.]com] is still the best, most reliable burning app, especially for video DVD & Blu-ray, but for that once a month DVD I like the simplicity & ease of Nero Express, where I simply drag & drop the files I want to archive & click the button to burn. So I'm giving Ashampoo Burning Studio 2022 a try. I'm sure there are likely better alternatives, but in this case I'm frankly lazy.
I dislike software adding [too often older] copies of the Microsoft C/C++ runtimes [I've already got more than plenty installed], and adding themselves to Windows Autorun, so I installed Burning Studio in a VM & copied it over to my regular copy of Windows. For some reason it required a Windows restart & then wouldn't run in my Win7 32-bit VM [though it showed up in Task Mgr.], so it **may** have / show problems in 32-bit Windows. Though it is a 32-bit app, in my Win7 64-bit VM it was fine. Burning Studio 2022 takes up around 200MB in the program's folder -- as usual with Ashampoo software, I deleted all the unused language files & flags [there's a bunch]. Additional folders were added to ProgramData and Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Local & Roaming. While the registry gets 500+ new entries, most are related to those Microsoft runtimes along with adding Burning Studio to the context menus and Autoruns -- the entries you need to run the app are in [HKCU]\ Software\ Ashampoo\, [HKLM]\ Software\ Ashampoo\, & [HKLM]\ Software\Wow6432Node\ Ashampoo\. I exported those 3 Ashampoo keys using Regedit in my Win7 VM, copied those 4 folders, merged those exported registry files [.reg], and added a shortcut to Windows Start Menu -- ProgramData\ Microsoft\ Windows\ Start Menu\ Programs\.