Reboot your PC and see if you are still experiencing problems. Then uncheck the option for Enable Nero Scout. Right-click on the Nero Scout icon and choose Options.
To do so, double-click on the My Computer icon. The first thing to do is to disable Nero Scout via its own interface. You might also consider upgrading to the latest version of Nero, Nero 8 Ultra Edition, which makes it easier to disable Scout and other features. Unless you are a hard-core user of all of Nero's programs, Nero Scout is a useless piece of software bloat. The only purpose for the database is to give you a more convenient way to access those media files, without having to navigate the folders on your hard drive. The database is used by other Nero programs, such as Wave Editor, Burning ROM, and PhotoSnap. When it finds such a file, it adds it to its own internal database.
It constantly runs in the background, looking for new media files, i.e. It should be noted that NmBgMonitor.exe and NMFirstStart.exe are not spyware.Īhead Software, the makers of Nero, have a web page for Nero Scout which can be viewed here.īasically, the program is a media indexer.
