What are iso files, and how do I open them?

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Microsoft has a "Virtual CD" driver available:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4402.html

Run it, and it installs a new drive letter, onto which you can mount and unmount ISO files.

(Note: this is the only one I've used, so I can't compare it to any others. Also, it only claims to be for XP, so I don't know if it works for Vista. However, it does the job for me, no fuss, no muss.)

daemon tools is the free program I use to mount .iso images as a virtual drive. It assigns a drive letter and it's as if you had the original CD in the drive. Works flawlessly for me.

http://filehippo.com/download_daemon_tools/

yeah, daemon tools is probably the best that I've seen, it has most copy-protection system emulations too.

I hae downloaded a game in my PC for PSP using uTorrent its an ISO type file then I have saved it on my PSP memory card but I am not able to play the game and PC is opening this file with Roxi Meida please advise how I can play the game on PSP

Hi Leo. Just wanted to say thanks for writing this in language even I can understand!

Thanks so much, This was extremely halpfull, thorough and understandable. Kuddos!

I took the advise of Bob L. above and the program he recommended worked flawlessly in Vista. I no longer have to burn ISO files onto a DVD/CD on order to install them from that DVD/CD back onto the same computer and this virtual DVD/CD program is a lot faster than the real (mechanical) thing. Thanks Bob!

I recently downloaded the 90-day trial of Microsoft Developer Studio 2008 to my Vista computer. It arrived as a 3+ GB ISO file. I tried using 7ZipFree and Undisker to extract the files but without success, probably because those two utilities are not compatible with Vista. Do you know of a Vista-compatible utility I can use to extract the files? Thanks.

Feels this way. I understand ISO pretty well now.Thans

I was recomended PowerISO and it seems to work fine. although I have only used it a couple of times they have a free version you can try.

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