Manually uninstall Nero7 "BEFORE" installing 8. Download and run Nero's "Clean Tool". Then your PC will be rid of all remnants of any previous version and assure you of a trouble free install.
Knowing full well how long installing or uninstalling
Nero takes I just figured I'd let
Nero 8 do the uninstalling for me. Yeah, that was a mistake since it left files on my HDD that shouldn't be there. I was a lazy git. I guess I got what I deserve, eh?
While I didn't run the clean tool, I did uninstall and manually clean the registry of Nero 7. Yes, this is a very wise thing to do.
Well, I decided to uninstall
Nero 8 so I could wipe the
Nero 7 files from my system w/o totally hosing something when I ran the
Nero Clean Tool. Unfortunately, when I went to
Add/Remove to uninstall
Nero 8 I got a lovely error message! In short,
Nero 8 didn't want to uninstall. Wow. Freakin' lovely! So... I said screw it and ran the
Nero Clean Tool. Well, folks, it supports
Nero 8 as well. That's one to remember. So, I ran it and removed
Nero 8, then rebooted pointed it to the old
Nero 7 directory and told it to wipe that, was given the option of removing
Nero 6 license stuff and whatever was left in the registry from that, and heck even
Nero SIPPS still have garbage somewhere on my system. The annoying part is that I
did run the
Nero Clean Tool sometime within the last year to do a clean removal of one of my
Nero 7 installs. How come it missed all this stuff then? Hmmm...
Anyway, make sure you have a copy of the newer
Nero Clean Tool somewhere handy just in case.