Mount an ISO (CD/DVD) image in Windows CD/DVD emulator

CDs/DVDs, who needs them?

It is better to just mount the ISO image you need and live in the virtual world; when that works for you. It is harder to do an OS installation like that, but for many other cases, this is fine.

For Windows the best way to do that is to use Daemon Tools CD/DVD emulator.

the Daemon Tools download link

However, you may use the MS tool (not as slick as daemon-tools and unsupported ), it can be downloaded at:

Microsoft's Virtual CD/ISO mounting tool (Virtual CD Control panel)

Don't have an ISO? Create your own: ISO Recorder v2. This allows a simple right click on a CD drive to write an iso. e.g:

Wikipedia on ISO

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