This free program for lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. Created by Microsoft This free program for lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. The “32k” program load ISO Images (iso), CDFS (cdfs), Joilet (jo), Rock Ridge (rock), UDF (udf), and any standard iso format.For anyone unfamiliar with the terms ‘virtual CD’ or ‘CD emulator’, they mean that you can copy the entire contents of a CD-ROM to your hard disk and run the programs or access the files without the need for the original CD. This can make files more accessible, faster and more convenient. Given the speed and size of today’s hard drives, you could easily fit a number of CDs onto your hard drive without noticing the difference. Assuming you had 30 full CDs, these would take around 20GB on a hard drive and all will be accessible after a few clicks of a mouse…. More Info »Hard drives are about 10 times faster than a CD, plus you can instantly access the file instead of grabbing the CD case, inserting the CD and awaiting for the contents to load. It’s true, you could try copying the files over to the hard drive, but this can get messy, plus some programs require a CD to be loaded in order to run. This virtual CD program ‘pretends’ it is a CD drive (even though the files are on your hard drive), so your programs will run as normal.It only works with ISO imagesInstallation instructions=========================1. Copy VCdControlTool.exe and VCdRom.sys to your %patch% or to system32 folder.2. Execute VCdControlTool.exe3. Click “Driver control”4. If the “Install Driver” button is available, click it. Navigate to the %systemroot%system32drivers folder, select VCdRom.sys, and click Open.5. Click “Start”6. Click OK7.
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