▷ Daemon tools windows 10 is it worth it? ? ? ?

Daemon Tools is still compatible for Windows 10. As many of you know, it is a well-known free tool, at least in its Lite version for mounting and creating ISO, MDF, MDS images, etc. Although it is true that in Windows 10 it is possible to mount ISO images with the system itself, we are going to review this tool to see the differences with the Windows solution.

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Daemon Tools Windows 10 download and installation

Daemon Tools is an application that has numerous versions and utilities. In our case we will only deal with its free version Daemon Tools Lite.

The first thing is to go to their official website and press the download button. From the beginning, it informs us that this version brings advertising in its installer. The next thing will be to run the file that we have downloaded to start the installer.

• Once the installation files have been downloaded by the wizard, click on "Install". We choose the free license option at all times We will be shown advertising to install the occasional extra software. In order not to install them, we uncheck the box of the corresponding license terms. During the installation we will be informed that a driver will be installed to create the virtual disk drives. We only give you to install.

Once the installation process is finished, we will have Daemon Tools Windows 10 installed on the computer. In the first opening it offers us the possibility of trying some options in the form of evaluation, we will skip this step. Let's see what it offers.

Resource consumption

Daemon Tools is an application external to Windows and as such we must also look at what resources it consumes.

The open application consumes 70 MB of RAM, it is a fairly light application, therefore. That will install its initialization by default at Windows startup. We are going to leave it as it is, but if you want to disable it so that it has no impact during startup you can disable it.

To do you must open the task manager by pressing the keys "Ctrl + Shift + Esc" and go to the "Start" tab

There we select the application and with the right button we open the contextual menu. We choose to disable.

Daemon Tools Windows Options

This is the main Daemon Tools screen. As we see there are few active tools since it is a Free version. We will can:

• Add virtual disk drives to have up to 4 images mounted simultaneously. For now, we can also do this with Windows 10, it is more in Windows in principle, there is no limitation. We can mount all the ones we want. Another interesting possibility is that we can mount all kinds of image formats: mdx, mds, iso, b5t, b6t, bwt, ccd, cdi, nrg, pdi and isz. There are quite a few more than we can mount with Windows 10.

• The most interesting option that we have active is to create an image from a CD or DVD that we have in the reader. If we are going to use this option frequently, Daemon Tools is worth it. We can create images in ISO, MDX and MDS formats

Otherwise this is the only thing we can do with this version, it is not too much for it is more than enough if what we are looking for is this.

conclusion

There are several alternatives to Daemon Tools Windows 10 such as: Virtual CloneDrive, WinCDEmu ISODisk or Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel among others. Although it is true that they are also partially free applications, they offer the same or less possibilities than Daemon Tools.

By this we mean that despite the fact that this software has few active options by default, if what we want is to mount any type of image or create them from a CD or DVD it is a very valid alternative and one of the best. Its resource consumption is minimal and its interface is simple and quick to use.

For us it is an application that is more than recommended, we would say essential if we continuously work with this type of actions in our team.

What software do you use to mount images? If you know of other applications equal to or better than Daemon Tools Windows 10 leave us in the comments, we'll take a look.

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