This post will help you to install software from .ISO images using a tool MagicDisc without burning them to any CD/DVD and also to use the tool without installing MagicISO
This tool supports both x86 and x64 along with all versions of windows including Windows 7 [i have tried it and it does work with no problem] and it is very small in size can be downloaded from http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm
Installation is simple enough and you should not face any issues. After setup you will notice a CD icon in system tray; just right click the icon and select the 2nd top option “Set Number of Drives” and select 1; you can choose more than 1 also if you want
After that windows will add a virtual CD/DVD Drive and give the next available drive label then right click again and select the first option on top “Virtual CD/DVD ROM” and you would see new Drive; just select it and choose “Mount” as you see in below snapshot
A window will come from where you can select the location of the .ISO image and thats it you are done. You can access the newly added .ISO image as another drive in your machine
The last step that you should do is to unmount the drive so that it frees the system resources.
Hope this is helpful.
This post is to share few great things to do with tool TweakUI which is one of the collections in XP Power toys suite from microsoft. Click the link to download TweakUI for x86
1. Change Default Locations for documents
The first thing that i did was to change the default location of My Documents which is C:\Documents and Settings\bhavtosh\My Documents
Because windows saves every document [doc, txt, xls, jpg etc] in the above location and many times when i rebuilt my machine with XP; i always missed out taking the backup from the above location and i did lost important number of times
So using tweakui i found a very good way of redirecting windows to map to my custom location for all documents. Just refer to the snapshot below and rest is self explanatory
You can change lot of default places to your custom locations and next time when you open windows explorer you will new settings.
2. Reduce time for right click
Those who like “Creating a folder” using right click a lot but get bored as windows takes time in populating the context menu is because if you have software like office, winzip, winrar etc then by default windows loads all the possible types of “document/files” extensions that you may create using the stated tools. For example see the below snapshot; it shows what i have on my machine
Im habitual of using new option to create folder and nothing else but since i have so many tools and windows takingtime to load the menu; i used tweakui to help me making my right click-new option to come much faster than before. below snapshot will tell you how
There are other things to do as well but i leave it you to explore the power of this tool.
Hope this useful.
