Virtual CDRom Control Panel enables you to mount ISO disk images as virtual CD-ROM drives.
Must be run "As Administrator" (in Windows 10).
Note: This tool is not supported by Microsoft so you will not be able find it even through a search on Microsoft website.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch VCdControlTool.exe. To enable the virtual CDROM drive:
Reverse the steps above to remove the virtual CDROM drive. |
Similar/alternative apps: | OSFMount, WinCDEmu |
Softpedia: https://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Virtual-CD-DVD-Rom/Virtual-CDROM-Control-Panel.shtml
MajorGeeks: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/virtual_cd_rom_control_panel.html
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Softonic has it: https://virtual-cd-rom-control-panel.en.softonic.com/download
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The download links goes to:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/404-page
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@bitbuerster, this is the best you can get for windows xp, other wise i'd go looking into how to write portable launchers, and uninstall/install drivers etc
bitbuerster: Any external file system on Windows must be part of Installable File System chain in order to be visible as a drive, thus by design it must be installed -> cannot be portable.
Even this method here "installs", but uses a pre-loaded driver to fool the system. Functionality of any alternative program would be the same, as it would have to access the same driver in the same fashion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installable_File_System
Two caveats: The directory path where the tool is installed to may not contain spaces (or you'll end up with a "mount failed" when VCDControlTool tries to actually mount an ISO). And 2nd, using the tool with Vista will work as admin only and you'll see the freshly mounted drive only from within an admin CMD.EXE command line (or from within VCDControlTool.exe's built-in file browser), but not from Vista's Windows Explorer.
-Anyone else with a 1) portable, 2) free and 3) Vista/Win7 compatible ISO-mounting utility?
Here is the link direct from MS:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe
where is the link??
if you use the program to run a dvd iso then use MediaPlayerClassic (freeware program) and go to File\Play DVD, it will play the DVD iso without any problems.
I use it all the time
Got homepage and download from https://web.archive.org/. Links changed.
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