{"id":82,"date":"2004-04-05T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2004-04-05T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:26:52","slug":"virtual-cd-rom-control-panel-for-winxp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for WinXP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of ISO images of product installs, and it&#8217;s always a pain in the bum to have to either burn them to CD or extract them using something like WinISO to use them. To make matters worse, I&#8217;ve just downloaded a not quite 3gig DVD ISO file and need to install, and of course, can&#8217;t find a DVD Burner anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, a quick Google turned up this, <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/7\/b\/6\/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2\/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe\">Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP<\/a>, an unsupported tool from Microsoft which lets you mount an ISO file as a drive letter. You have to manually install (there is a readme.txt file) but it seems to work well, even with 3gig ISO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of ISO images of product installs, and it&#8217;s always a pain in the bum to have to either burn them to CD or extract them using something like WinISO to use them. To make matters worse, I&#8217;ve just downloaded a not quite 3gig DVD ISO file and need to install, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}