Watching an .ISO in Windows 7 Media Center

Andrew Gehman

Feb 24 |21:55

Now, this is a feature that I wish Media Center would have out of the box. Windows, however, doesn't have any built in utility to mount ISO's. So to watch an ISO in Media Center, or any number of other media applications, you need to manually "Mount" the file so it appears as a CD/DVD in an optical drive to the Operating System. Once the ISO is "mounted" it can be played just like a regular DVD.

If you have ISO images you want to play in Windows Media Center, check out Mikinho's Mount Image application. It works in conjuncture with Virtual Clone Drive to automatically mount and play the ISO image whenever the file is clicked in Windows Media Center.

To see how to set it up and configure it, check out my full tutorial at How-To Geek.