Monday, November 16, 2009

Opening ".iso" files on Windows 7

Windows 7 can burn ".iso" file on a disk if there is a disk burner on the computer. But unfortunately, it can't open/mount ".iso" file for browsing. Microsoft missed it again.

In any modern OS today, I would expect out of the box support for ".iso" file format. It is a very popular and non-proprietary format. Strangely, I needed "iso" reader/mounter because when I downloaded Microsoft Expression Studio from Microsoft's DreamSpark website, it came in ".iso" format.

Here is a free software I found which does the job quite nicely - Virtual CloneDrive from SlySoft. So far this has been working well for me.

Just now I found that 7-zip supports reading ISO files. Download it from http://portableapps.com/ or http://www.7-zip.org/.

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