Reviews of Explore&Burn

1. 
   Plumber

   Reviewing 1.6.5 (Nov 8, 2010)

   I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on all points, "Lord" (someone using the nickname "Lord" calling me "immature"--rich!). I find ImgBurn inconvenient and clunky. I do agree that it usually works well.
   
   As far as Windows having a native ability to burn images to disc, well I have to disagree. None of my WinXP machines have this capability. The only thing I can do is burn images to discs as files.
   
   If I were friends with every author I've been accused of being friends with, wow, that would be a big happy family. Always, if it's freeware, you're free to rave about it, but if it's shareware, you're insulted and accused of being a biased liar. Yet I'm the "immature" and "closed minded" one!
2. 
   -Lord-

   Reviewing 1.6.4 (Oct 28, 2010)

   First, ImgBurn is not overly complicated. At install and first launch, you get a very clear and concise dialog asking what kind of project you'd like to complete; be it burn an image to disk, or create one etc. It does have the more complicated features for disk mastering for more advanced users, but they're not required as the defaults have never failed me regardless of the task I wish to perform.
   
   Second, BurnAware, while an ok type of app, falls short in some of its functionality and abilty, but can't be totally ignored because it is, after all, free.
   
   Plumber should focus on a more intelligent and lucid explanation as to why he thinks one program beats another, and leave the passion out of it. Slamming other people for their own beliefs simply because they don't fall in line with yours is immature and closed minded. Rating a program high because the authors included adding it into the context menu or because they're a friend of yours is simply ridiculous. What other folks are mentioning here is simply this:
   
   When you compare this program to others, it doesn't do anything more than the others do besides that context menu thing. I, for one, don't care much about that since I prefer to get into the program itself and do the disk mastering myself. That being said, considering that the other programs are free and this one is not, I would go with the others, and between those two mentioned, ImgBurn is by far the more powerful and comprehensive. Now I did give this program a fair shake and tried it, and quite frankly I am very not impressed with it. It's burner software. it works. So it gets a 3. Does it work better? No, so it doesn't get an extra point which would have been a 4. When comparing apples to apples, is it free also? No, there goes the other point that could have brought it up to a 5. So to be clear, it works, but it's not free or as powerful as other free ones, it gets a 3.
   
   Also, one other thing... take note of the image. Right above this program's dialog for burning an image to disk, is Windows BUILT IN ability to burn an image to disk, which is also (ahem) FREE. So is one really expected to pay to do something that can be done in literally the same step for FREE?
   
   And I don't know any of the authors to any of the programs.
3. 
   figaro331

   Reviewing 1.6.4 (Oct 27, 2010)

   Plumber is a friend of the developer of this crapware that's why he put 5 stars rating. This program doesn't even have appropriate interface to be burning program. I wouldn't install it even for free or if they pay me to do it.
   ImageBurn is the best free burning program which outperforms any of shareware programs of that kind !
4. 
   Plumber

   Reviewing 1.6.3 (Oct 4, 2010)

   BurnAware is crap and ImgBurn is overcomplicated, extremely clunky, and poorly documented. And neither has the primary feature that Explore&Burn offers, which is access from the Explorer shell.
   
   Next to the internet, I can't think of any other aspect of life that is so full of whiny spoiled crybabies with an overinflated sense of self-entitlement. Under no other circumstances do people expect the best and also expect for it to be free. Nor do they settle for sub-par performance but rave about it just because it's free.
   
   Why don't they offer a free version? Because they don't have to. It's their product. You're not entitled to free anything. Go use something else--see who cares.
5. 
   niknetpc

   Reviewing 1.6.1 (Mar 26, 2010)

   Money talks..from top freeware used of thousands of people many cool projects always later transform to so far shareware,remember BassicTech ORT etc. and these people always forget about it and switch to other free alternatives, BurnAware or ImgBurn.Why developers do not make free version with some limitations and paid version instead if start with full free version?

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