{"id":1209,"date":"2007-04-11T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2007\/04\/11\/free-virtual-cd-rom-drive-from-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:52","slug":"free-virtual-cd-rom-drive-from-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/04\/11\/free-virtual-cd-rom-drive-from-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Free virtual CD-ROM drive from Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1320\">latest issue of Windows Secrets newsletter<\/a> has a nice tip about a free virtual CD-ROM drive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently rediscovered a nifty free tool from Microsoft. You may find it  useful, too.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel&#8230;<br \/>\nIt lets you mount an ISO  file of a CD in one step, without having to burn it to an actual, physical CD  first. You then have access to the full contents of the CD and can get at any  or all of the data.<br \/>\nThe Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel also lets you mount several  images at once, each with its own drive letter. I don&#8217;t know what the upper  limit is, but I&#8217;ve had as many as four ISOs mounted at once, in addition to the  two real CD drives in my system. And, of course, because the ISO files actually  reside on your hard drive, you can access them at normal hard-drive speeds,  which are usually much, much faster than CD drives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1320\">Windows Secret site<\/a> for more details and to find the link to download the utility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Windows Secrets newsletter has a nice tip about a free virtual CD-ROM drive: I recently rediscovered a nifty free tool from Microsoft. You may find it useful, too. It&#8217;s the Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel&#8230; It lets you mount an ISO file of a CD in one step, without having to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-software-tips","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}