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.