What you should do is uninstall ALL of Nero, and then re-install Burning
ROM, Express and maybe the backup utility, and leave all of the rest of Nero
out..
"Romane" <> wrote in message
news:eD$...
> Not sure I understand your question, but if going into MSConfig (type
> msconfig in the search box, hit enter) and taking the ticks out of
> anything that came from Nero (found 2 under the 'Services' tab, and 1
> under the 'Startup' tab), hit 'Apply' and then 'OK' fits the bill, then
> yes, have disabled it. Also, into Windows Explorer, select 'Computer', and
> get rid of 'Nero Scout' - from memory, right click it, select 'properties'
> (I think, I did not take that much note) and find the checkbox you can
> deselect to prevent it starting with Vista.
>
> Doing this, however, means that at boot, Windows Defender will give you a
> prompt that it has prevented a program from running. Right click, choose
> to allow the blocked program to run. That will give you a dialogue box
> that has a check-box that you can select to say you do not want this
> program to run at startup. If MSConfig then comes back up when you tap the
> OK button, just close it using the 'Cancel' button (or you may end up
> having to go through the whole process again - I had to re-do it twice
> more because I hit OK, and only at the second repeat did I notice that the
> 'general' tab had gone back to 'Normal startup' instead of staying on
> 'Selective startup').
>
> R.
>
>
> "Guess Who" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> It's a well known fact that the Nero Media Indexing is a system hog, and
>> in my opinion, completely useless utter trash. I wrote a scathing letter
>> to the folks at Nero for forcing this junk upon us. This is the last
>> version of Nero I will deal with.
>>
>> Have you learned how to disable it?
>>
>> "Romane" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Well, you all saw my vent, and I still have some issues with Vista that
>>> I broached a final resort solution to in another thread (thanks to
>>> everyone for their responses there).
>>>
>>> A couple of days ago I installed a gadget (finally) that gave me the
>>> load on each core of my CPU, and both were running at a constant half
>>> capacity and frequently more. Went into Task Manager, and discovered
>>> that in the 'Process' tab a process called NMIndexingService (from Nero)
>>> was constantly/permanently running at 50% and greater in the CPU column.
>>> Killed it from Task Manager (can always reboot if system becomes
>>> unstable).
>>>
>>> Suddenly my CPU started running closer to (varying between) the 1% to
>>> 15% mark, and Vista has become far more responsive. Also had fewer
>>> 'program not responding' issues, which is encouraging. So used MSConfig
>>> to kill off anything being started automatically that came from Nero,
>>> and as well knocked out 'Nero Scout' via its presence in Windows
>>> Explorer. System is more stable than before, though still have some 'not
>>> responding issues', and my nVidia driver still falls over now and again,
>>> but this has been an encouraging step forward. Even printing seems to go
>>> better and smoother (both my printers are hooked to my XP box). It's
>>> been 24 hours now since did the MSConfig thing, with no apparent
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> I offer this it as a possibility to others who are having problems with
>>> Vista crawling - the culprit may be another piece of software. And if
>>> the system becomes unstable or falls completely over by killing the
>>> offending process, then can always reboot to get it back to "normal".
>>>
>>> R.
>>
>>
>
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