An ISO file, or optical disc image, is a way to create a copy of a large data set. It can be used for any extensive program, but the most common use of an ISO file is creating an operating system ...

Those of you interested in taking the current Insiders preview edition of Windows 11 for a test drive can easily work with the new operating system via an ISO file. Having such a file gives you the ...

Windows 11/10 offers native support for burning .iso images. You can now burn images to disc, without using 3rd party software, as it includes a built-in Windows Disc Image Burner or isoburn.exe. Can ...

Passcape ISO Burner is free portable software for Windows that lets you easily burn ISO image files to CD/DVD/USB. It also lets you create bootable disks or a bootable USB drive from the ISO images ...

Certain software programs, especially large ones, are sometimes formatted and made available as ISO files, from Windows itself to applications like Microsoft Office. An ISO file contains all the ...

I've had success with MultiBootISOs. Once you set it up on a USB stick, you can just copy the .iso file onto the stick and then add a reference to it into the menu text file. It looks something like ...

Every time Microsoft releases a new feature update for Windows 10, you should build a new recovery drive containing the setup files for that update. You can use that ...

Years ago, I finally made the decision to stop buying an optical drive when building a new PC, because I can’t remember the last time I actually needed to put a disc into my computer. Yes, I’ll ...

I'm not a big fan of optical drives, and haven't had one in my system for quite sometime now (probably around the time Windows Vista was released). How do you install Windows if you don't have an ...