Yup very much bloatware these days!

I've got it installed on a couple of pc's, and use it very occasionally for burning cd's and dvd's (mostly I use Brasero, because mostly I work on linux). For that it (nero) seems ok, haven't tried all the other rubbish that comes with it (and I generally only install the minimum set to begin with).

That sounds more likely to be a shell extension than a file association.

Have you tried something like Autoruns to see what shell extenstions are configured?

that found 22 references to nero :(

I think it was hiding in some codecs

let's hope it's gone now, thanks

\o/

Cool, glad it helped :)