I had to replace my older computer with one with Win8.1...just getting used to it. Seems pretty good so far. I had Nero on my old XP and went to Softpedia and downloaded Nero-9-Free. I would have expected a small 'exe' file but it downloaded a large 54mb file. I guess this is the whole installation program instead of a small 'exe' one using the internet for the installation files. Does this sound right? I have not run it as of yet. On the Softpedia site, there are many dozens of burners listed, most of them unknown to me. Nero is the only one I am familiar with. I am sure there are other fine ones unknown to me. If there are not any reservation on the large 54mb file, I probably ill run it. There is a burner with Win8.1 but it is pretty lame and not easy to use. Regards, Dave C.