On my Windows 7 Home Premium computer, I can right click on an iso image file and it opens a window that allows me to select "open with" and when I do that, it opens another window that allows me to "burn the image to DVD" and it proceeds to burn the iso image file to the DVD. Using that method creates a bootable DVD iso image.

On my Windows 7 Pro computer, I right click on the iso image file and it opens a window that only allows me to select "open" and of course MS opens a window and says it cant open iso files. The only other option is to click on "send to" DVD-RW/Drive. Using this method, it creates a "non bootable" iso DVD image.

This following url explains how this should work but it does not work on Windows 7 Pro so if anyone knows a way to do this on Windows 7, I would surely appreciate it.

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2009/04/13/burn-iso-images-natively-in-windows-7.aspx

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate. My right-click lets me choose to Burn Image, and it does make bootable ISO's.

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Patty MacDuffie
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Mr. Spock

Do your options match the image below?

This is what it looks like for me in Windows 7 Home Premium.

Don't know why you are not getting the burn option but take the easy way out and use Microburner. You can get it here. http://jaylach.com/downloads

It is a stand alone program so there will be no install. In fact it works just fine off of a flash drive.

When you run it select ISO burner/creator under the 'show' tab.

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No, choose Open With -> Windows Disc Image Burner. It looks different on your machine probably because you have a 3rd party burner installed, whereas I do not.

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Mr. Spock

Patty, he doesn't have the 'Windows Disk Image Burner' option on the Windows 7 Pro machine.

Chadslink, Can't you just burn it on your Home Premium system?

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Ah, I missed that post, just saw his second one. Yes, Microburner will do it.

Well before you do that, try a shift-right-click and see if it gives you the Open With option.

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Mr. Spock

Or you can fix it this way:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/d532f9a3-f4a8-4d23-909d-ed79b5e60ba0

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Mr. Spock

The difference between what you see in Pro and Home Premium in those image is that on the Pro machine you have "Send To" and not "Open With" as you have on Home Premium.
Do you get the "Open With" option on any right click of a file in Windows Explorer (and the Desktop)?
If not, see this discussion: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-desktop/right-click-open-with-command-missing-help-please/a9c3f139-075c-4285-b87d-25e899fb8b27
-steve

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I used that program link several months back and it worked on Windows Home Premium but when I used it this time on Windows 7 Pro, it did not create a bootable DVD.

The file on the Win 7 Pro machine doesn't look like its a complete file, the icon should show a DVD/CD icon if its an complete .iso file You might want to delete it and transfer the file over from the Home Premium machine or redownload it from Novell.

Hi Jay, thats what I ended up doing in order to get the DVD I needed to boot up a Linux system on another computer. It was during this process of making a bootable iso image that I came up with the problem about not being able to do it with Windows 7 Pro. After two days of messing with this, I think I have come up with the reason there is no "open with" on "MY" Windows 7 Pro.

If you go back to my first post, you will see that right clicking on that iso file opens a Window that says Microsoft cannot open this file and it gives you the option to search the net for a program that will. It also gives you the option to browse your own computer for a file. Well I skipped right past that browse your own computer option. I gave that a try and "Burn Image To Disk" was the sole option it brought up. There was also a check box option in that window to make that the default for iso files and I checked that.

Now when I right click on an iso file, I get the image you see below.

Good job.

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