The ISO Recorder Power Toy is CD burning software for Microsoft Windows XP, 2003, Vista and 7. It was written by Alex Feinman and is open source

Open source

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 software under a license similar to the BSD license with advertising clause. Although a third-party product, it is unofficially recommended by Microsoft

Microsoft

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The software is used to burn an ISO 9660

ISO 9660

ISO 9660, also referred to as CDFS by some hardware and software providers, is a file system standard published by the International Organization for Standardization for optical disc media....

image file to CD or DVD and can also create an ISO image from files or folders.

The software:

• adds an Explorer menu item called "Create ISO image file" when you right-click on any file or folder (except one with extension .ISO);
• Adds an Explorer menu item called "Copy image to CD" when you right-click on an ISO;
• associates itself with the .ISO extension.

On XP, the software cannot create or burn anything larger than a CD.
As of version 3.1, ISO Recorder is also compatible with Windows 7.

External links

• ISO Recorder (project home page)