Several month ago, I bought an external CD/DVD burner. It came bundled with Nero Essentials. I have been happy with the combination in terms of how it does the job of burning disks.

However, it turns out that one of the background processes of Nero Essentials is ALWAYS running and is using 50 - 54% of my CPU resources. I discovered this in trouble shooting why my new Logitech video cam used in Skype was freezing my whole system after 2 - 15 minutes on a video call.

(BTW, the CSR at Logitech was excellent!)

So now I have removed Nero essentials. CPU usage is less than 5% with the camera running and while I am online. Problem solved, I hope.

Question: what CD/DVD burning software to get that does not take over my system when I do not have the application open, that is not such a resource hog?

I also had some issues with shutting down with other Nero complications.