ISO format. Than to open such file?

Now a computer or a laptop is in almost every family. Someone uses it exclusively for work, and the other - purely for entertainment purposes. And quite often an amateur computer games are faced with this kind of file extension as an ISO image. Accordingly, the question arises as to how to open it and what program to use for it? Not only special utilities will come to the rescue, but also what you have, most likely, installed on your PC.

But what is the ISO format? Than to open is a question already in principle secondary. For starters, it would be nice to find out the essence of this file extension at all. After all, many people are afraid to open it only because unknown letters cause banality in mistrust. Of course, experienced gamers have long been familiar with this kind of files. But newcomers may not know this format and treat it as a virus infected with information. In fact, an ISO image is an electronic version of a CD or DVD. Just do not need to insert it into the drive to display the stored information. If you use the language of players, then we are dealing with a virtual machine. Therefore, if you became the owner of a file with such an extension, then you practically had a full-fledged disk with the game. Now let's look at how to open the ISO format.

The most popular and most famous program for such a case is the WinRAR archiver, which, for sure, has been installed on your computer for a long time. To this small, but very useful utility was able to help resolve the existing problem, you need to slightly change its settings. In the item "Parameters" find the word "Settings". The tab named "Integration" will open the user settings menu, where you can tick the necessary file extensions that the program will be able to open. In the same place you will see the required ISO format. How to open it? Now this is no longer a problem. After you include it in the list of available extensions and restart the archiver, the file will give you all the information hidden in it without any problems. You can even extract all the files stored in the image. It's not harder to do this than just unpack the archive. All actions will be similar.

In addition to WinRAR, there are a number of other utilities that are subject to the ISO format. How to open it, if you somehow do not have this archiver? For example, a program called Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120. Their essence lies precisely in giving the computer user the opportunity to work with such mysterious, at first glance, files. However, their work is somewhat different from the standard and familiar to all archivers. Both programs create a so-called virtual disk on the PC, to which the image will be recorded.

After you install one of the above utilities (as an example, consider Daemon Tools), its icon will appear in the tray (look at the area directly near the clock and date). Clicking on it with a mouse (right click), you can already start working with files. The program will prompt you to select a virtual disk, after which the ISO format will be subsequently attached. How to open it and how to do it? Simply select the required file from the range of available. Next, you will see that along with the already existing drives, a completely new, named image has appeared. Strictly speaking, virtualization is complete. The file can be used at your discretion and desire. The main difference between these programs and WinRAR is that they are not Russified. Although, as you can see, this should not be an obstacle in the work.

As you can see, an unfamiliar extension is not necessarily a symbol of a malicious program that wishes to treacherously penetrate a PC and somehow negatively affect its operation. Remember that if there is such a format, then there must necessarily be a utility with which you can open it.