The majority of the files in Program Files (x86) did change. I saved a copy to compare to today's install, and I expected they would be the same, but today's install is a tiny bit later than the one in January. For that install, I also ended up with version 1.22.5, and everything worked. In January, Ashampoo Burning Studio 2021 was offered on another site. Since you have been warned in the readme.txt file that you are not permitted any free updates, you may think that installing this 'free update for you' will prevent the program from working, but in this specific case, it does not. It will show the actual version number.įor this specific download, the version is 1.22.0, but immediately following the install, you will be prompted to install a 'free update for you' that is version 1.22.5.

You can easily check these yourself by right-clicking on an. I prefer to seek out the original numbering system embedded into the executable files.

Notice that 2021 is at the end of this product name. It is a bit confusing since several software companies starting using the year as the version, but they generally never gave up on their original numbering system either.

It depends on what you think 'version' is for this software.

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