I have been playing with a third party (don't want to reveal )sync tool lately to backup and sync my personal and official content between my laptop and external USB harddisk. Initially I was very much impressed with the tool and loved it, until I came across with the limitation and as always the trial period which forced me to look for an alternative.

The free tool I discovered was SyncToy which you can download it here. The tool is excellent and does whatever I wanted. check it out!

Recently, I had some trouble with my free burning software "DeepBurner" and was looking for another free alternative.

After hours of search on the web for a free tool, I realized that Windows 2003 resource kit has a free tool called DVDBurn. Those who love only gui will be highly disappointed because it's just a simple command line tool.

So, how do I get this utility? First, you need to download the reource kit from here and install it on your windows PC.

Then go to the command prompt and try the command as shown below. Of course, you need to change the ISO filename.

Nice tool from MS to post your blogs instantly.

Windows Live Writer

Have you ever been in a situation where you have an ISO image, but do not have a reader ? You spend hours on the web and find a trial version which will expire in 15 days?

Well look no further, MS has a cool "unsupported" tool to mount ISO images for Windows XP. I even tried this on a server OS and works like a charm!

Here's the direct download from MS VirtualCDControlPanel enjoy!

Here's a quick update for those who have tried this tool on Windows 2008 or Vista and failed:

Please make sure you disable UAC before attempting to load the VirtualCD driver. If you are not sure how to disable UAC then follow the steps as described here.