ASPI error and looking for a alternative to NERO

I am currently using NERO for burning my DVD's/CD's but want to move to some other product. It started when I could not read DVD's which were working just fine few months back.

I tried to burn a few CD's and DVD's after facing the problem and some burned fine. So that is very confusiong. Anyway I did a search and found that there is new version of ASPI Checker 1.0 and also a latest version of Nero ASPI Driver v2.0.1.74 (which basically is a DLL file named wnaspi32.dll)

1) I made a backup copy of the original DLL file sitting in C:\Windows\System32 folder and then replaced it with the latest DLL mentioned above.

2) Then I ran ASPI Checker 1.0 and the results are in the text below and also in the attached image.

LOG0143: *****************************************************************
LOG0144: Starting ASPICHK installer on Sun May 23 08:02:11 2010
ASPICHK0438: OS = Windows NT (5.01.2600)
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system32\wnaspi32.dll dated 05/22/2010 04:24:47, 164112 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system32\wnaspi32.dll version 2.0.1.74
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\winaspi.dll dated 12/31/2002 12:00:00, 5600 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\winaspi.dll version 4.6.0.1021
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system32\drivers\aspi32.sys dated 12/31/2002 12:00:00, 16877 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system32\drivers\aspi32.sys version 4.71.2.0
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\wowpost.exe dated 12/31/2002 12:00:00, 4672 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\wowpost.exe version 4.6.0.1021
ASPICHK0522: Inconsistent version numbers among components
ASPICHK0592: ASPI installation has problems
LOG0218: Closing installer log on Sun May 23 08:02:11 2010
LOG0219: *****************************************************************​

So Q#1 is that is there a way to fix the problem? I realize that the problem regarding the CD's/DVD's could be due to bad media which could happen for whatever reasons but i do keep my CD's/DVD's in a neat casing and handle them carefully (holding always by the edges and trying mever to touch the surface)

Question #2 (for which I would really request help) is that is there a freeware which does pretty much the same job as Nero. Maybe not but no harm is asking. If not, then based on your experience can you please recommend an alternative (to NERO) shareware product which I can switch too. I read about a product called Ashampoo somewhere but that was a long time back....

BTW, I did find a freeware called ImgBurn and plan on using it only for burning images. I don't think it offers all the features which Nero (or similar products do) since it's probably only a tool (probably the best??? amongst the freeware category) to burn images to a CD/DVD.

Will appreciate your reply to both questions please.

 

Well, I may not be able to answer both questions, but if you're looking for an alternative to Nero, let me suggest this; http://www.majorgeeks.com/CDBurnerXP_d4242.html It is freeware and it is updated often. I've never had a problem with it and it has all the features I need. Granted, your needs may be different than mine, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

 

Hi Stubby and thanks for the recommendation. Might give it a try.

However hope to get a reply to my Q#1 at least for my own knowledge/understanding.

 

Hi Halo, Hi Stubby.

Just want to share my feedback and thank you both for suggestion.

I am so happy that I got rid of Nero because I try the CDBurnerXP and it is wonderful and works so good.

thank u 2 both of you.

:seeya