PowerISO Editor's Review

Take complete command of all your disk images with this handy Windows utility.

The one thing I really like about Macs is its ability to distribute software on disk images. Most software is actually distributed in downloadable disk images and run or installed right from the image. This is one reason why I really like PowerISO. It’s a disk image editing and creating tool for Windows.

PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD/BD image file processing tool, allowing you to open, extract, burn, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split, convert and mount ISO files as internal, virtual drives. It can process almost all CD/DVD/BD image files including ISO and BIN files. PowerISO provides an all-in-one solution, allowing you to do manipulate and use your ISO and disc image files as you need.

PowerISO doesn't just allow you to mount and use CD/DVD/BD-ROM images like any other disk your computer connects to.  It also allows you to create a DAA (Direct-Access-Archive) file, an advanced image file, which supports compression, password protection, and splitting the image to multiple volumes, if needed.  PowerISO also supports creating and editing ISO, BIN, NRG, CD file formats as well.  Creating bootable CD/DVD's is also supported in both 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows.

Pros: Mount, create, and edit Windows compatible disc images.

Cons: Burning of Blu-ray discs requires a compatible drive.

Conclusion: PowerISO is a great application and gives you abilities and features that you wish would have been built into Windows by default. With the inclusion of PowerISO as part of your computer system, regardless of whether you actually have a built in optical drive (on a netbook, or ultrabook PC for example), you can access disc images that either you've created from physical media or have downloaded to your machine.