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Should I remove Astroburn Lite?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
26% remove it74% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Good
What do people think about it?
(click star to rate)
How common is it?
Global Rank #11,085
United States Rank #16,131
Reach 0.0309%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 35.58 days
1049.75 days >
Average installed length: 551.56 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
1.6.1.0171 34.32%
1.6.1.0168 31.03%
1.6.0.0167 2.79%
1.5.0.0139 31.53%
1.5.0.0137 0.33%

Astroburn Lite

What is Astroburn Lite?

The free version of Astroburn Lite bundles a number of additional potentially unwanted products during installation under the notation of a 'Special Offer'. Although this is an optiona install, it is checked by default and can be easily overlooked. As of now, it currently bundles various Conduit toolbar products.

"As part of the installation, you can get the Somoto Toolbar including Value Apps for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome and Conduit Search Protect." With pre-checked options to "Install the toolbar with Value Apps and receive notifications (recommended); Set my default search and homepage to the toolbar's customized web search page. Install and enable Search Protect to notify me of changes." The 'Value Apps' are the programs Price Gong and CouponBuddy, both notorious adware programs.

About  (from DT Soft Ltd)

Astroburn Lite offers to create CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays with just a few mouse clicks. User completely controls the process while working: free space a disc has, already planned to be taken and reading/erasing speed is chosen. Astroburn Lite enables to create a new project, folder or burn just one file and rename already...  Read more
Overview
  • Known to include offers within the setup
Astroburn Lite has been seen bundling various 3rd party software during the installation process. Make sure to check for and remove unused programs.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: astroburn.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\astroburn lite
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Astroburn Lite\uninst.exe
Estimated size: 12.89 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Astroburn Lite

Program executable:astroburnlite.exe
Name:Astroburn Lite
Signed by:Disc Soft Ltd
Path:C:\Program Files\astroburn lite\astroburnlite.exe
MD5:3b5f44a7a08689e1df5876a57196c80a
Additional files:
  • imgengine.dll - DAEMON Tools Image Engine (Image engine library)
  • Engine.dll - Astroburn Lite (Helper library)
  • uninst.exe - Astroburn Lite Setup

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Autoplay Handler
  • AstroburnLite.exe is registered as an AutoPlay event handler named 'AstroburnLiteBurnDisc' with the ProgID of 'AstroburnLiteBurnDisc' and the action verb 'BurnDisc.

How do I remove Astroburn Lite?

You can uninstall Astroburn Lite from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Astroburn Lite, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Astroburn Lite.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 74%
Win 7 0%
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 26%
Keep it 74%
 
GLOBAL RANK
#11,085

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 80.79%
Windows XP 8.87%
Windows 10 5.91%
Windows Vista 4.43%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 34.21%
Windows 7 Ultimate 26.48%
Windows 7 Professional 16.61%
Microsoft Windows XP 8.88%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 3.29%
Windows 7 Enterprise 1.81%

Distribution by countryGeography

23.31% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 23.31%
  France 8.87%
  Germany 7.97%
  Spain 3.76%
  Italy 3.76%
  Russia 3.46%
  Brazil 3.31%
  Japan 3.16%
  Netherlands 3.16%
  United Kingdom 3.16%
  Canada 2.86%
  Poland 2.26%
  Taiwan 1.80%
  Portugal 1.80%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Acer 20.67%
Hewlett-Packard 20.36%
Dell 17.33%
GIGABYTE 12.77%
ASUS 12.16%
Toshiba 4.56%
Intel 3.95%
Lenovo 2.74%
Samsung 2.43%
American Megatrends 1.22%
Alienware 0.91%
MSI 0.91%
Common models
HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook ... 5.10%
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 3.82%
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 3.82%
Acer Aspire 5750G 2.55%
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 2.55%
ASUSTeK K53SV 2.55%

About DT Soft Ltd

Disc Soft Ltd produces DAEMON Tools (Disk And Execution MONitor tools) which is a virtual drive and optical disc authoring program for Windows.
Publisher URL: www.daemon-tools.cc

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