Coming from the *NIX/Mac world I frequently find myself mounting ISO images as local disks for software installation, etc.
The same requirement recently came up for me on a Windows platform and I was a little stumped as I did not want to spend any money on this (as I see this as an intrinsic part of the the OS) by buying Alcohol or Daemon Tools.
To my surprise Microsoft actually has a (unsupported) tool (Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel) and driver that provides virtual CD-ROM services.
Unfortunately the solution is XP-only. Download the executable above and install the service. Its readme is quite short and to the point so getting this going is pretty easy.
Have fun!
The same requirement recently came up for me on a Windows platform and I was a little stumped as I did not want to spend any money on this (as I see this as an intrinsic part of the the OS) by buying Alcohol or Daemon Tools.
To my surprise Microsoft actually has a (unsupported) tool (Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel) and driver that provides virtual CD-ROM services.
Unfortunately the solution is XP-only. Download the executable above and install the service. Its readme is quite short and to the point so getting this going is pretty easy.
Have fun!