Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel download - A granddaddy free ISO mounting utility from Microsoft

Microsoft Downloads - Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel

"This utility enables users of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 to mount ISO disk image files as virtual CD-ROM drives.

Version: 2.0.1.1
Date published: 4/23/2013

Language: English

winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe, 60 KB

Overview

The Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel utility enables users of Windows XP, Vista, and 7 to mount ISO disk image files as virtual CD-ROM drives. This can be highly useful for reading disk images to install software or recover backup files. Notes: This tool is not supported by Microsoft; use at your own risk. Windows 8 users do NOT need this tool. Windows 8 natively supports ISO files. In Windows 8, you can simply open an ISO file and Windows automatically assigns it a drive letter and reads it as a virtual drive.

Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP

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Not sure how much of an update this is, but this is a grand daddy of ISO mounting tools (one I referenced in 2005) and just the other day I was asked about ISO mounting on a pre-Win8 machine, so...