Alcohol 52% now FREEWARE

[vfrjim]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I've used Daemon Tools for years, but this is hot! :thumbsup:

IE toolbar though? :thumbsdown:

- JaAG

I second Daemon tools, great FREE app. No toolbars needed, enough crap on my system.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: vfrjim

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I've used Daemon Tools for years, but this is hot! :thumbsup:

IE toolbar though? :thumbsdown:

- JaAG

I second Daemon tools, great FREE app. No toolbars needed, enough crap on my system.

Daemon Tools comes with "Save Now" toolbar /adware that installs itself onto your system during a Daemon Tools install. You can remove the alc toolbar easily via add/remove programs, you do not need the toolbar to use alc 52%, just like you do not need Save Now to use Daemon Tools.

 

[Modular]

This is great! Thanks OP. Installed and works really well. McAfee caught the IE toolbar trying to install and I told it not to allow it to change the registry, so that took care of it for me. Gotta love McAfee.

Anyways, thanks again.

 

[compcons]

I'll have to install and see how it handles all the games. With 6 SATA drives in RAID 5, I have over a TB of space, but only 1 optical drive. If it will mount 2142, dungeon seige, BF2, and a handful of others, this is an ideal solution.

Pulling games off the librarry shelf to play is a pain.

Thanks OP

EH

 

[Basilisk]

I must be even more forgetful than I thought! Hasn't Alc52% -always- been free?

Over many years, I've twice tried it on my computer -- and later removed it do to apparent problems [too long ago; can't recall details]. From the raucous enthusiasm to this post, I presume any issues are solved.

These days I use MS's own vCD s/w: http://download.microsoft.com/download/...efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe

None of this is to say Alc52% isn't better/more-useful/liver-destroying.

 

[Fraggable]

Nifty program but I can never get these products to work with the programs that need CDs - mostly games. Almost no current games will work with this.

 

[Schadenfroh]

<blockquote>quote:
Originally posted by: Fraggable
Nifty program but I can never get these products to work with the programs that need CDs - mostly games. Almost no current games will work with this.</blockquote>

Update Alcohol 52%

 

[Modular]

I've only tried it with Oblivion. I'll have to try FarCry, BF2 etc. to make sure they still work.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I have been using alcohol 120 for years now, I love it!

 

[cruzer]

I installed it last night, but I see no toolbar in IE or Firefox and nothing in add/remove programs to remove it.

 

[kwo]

Originally posted by: Jeeebus

Originally posted by: papaschtroumpf
what's the difference with alcohol 120%?

Approximately 68%

I just knew...just knew...someone would respond with this...

 

[papaschtroumpf]

yeah can someone comment on what the IE toolbar is about, how intrusive/spyware, and whether it can be removed and have alcohol still work?

 

[bigfil]

daemon tools ftw!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: papaschtroumpf
yeah can someone comment on what the IE toolbar is about, how intrusive/spyware, and whether it can be removed and have alcohol still work?

Yes, remove "Alc Toolbar" via add/remove programs and it is gone, Kaspersky, spybot, adware, and a(squared) do not find anything (with the latest defs), the add/remove programs gets rid of it. Alc 52% does not need it to work, already tested it on my test machine, about to run a scan with Windows Defender and Hijackthis just to make sure, but I think that add/remove programs gets rid of this toolbar and alc 52% is running great:thumbsup:

 

[Mr Bob]

Originally posted by: Jeeebus

Originally posted by: papaschtroumpf
what's the difference with alcohol 120%?

Approximately 68%

- hahha

Great deal!

 

[Fenixgoon]

does alcohol 52% allow for the creation of cd/dvd images? if so, im in, because Dtools doesn't do image creation, only virtual drive emulation

 

[kevman]

right click to mount and ISO ? Damn thats i the one thing I wish DT had

 

[Schadenfroh]

EDIT: removed

 

[KeithTalent]

First time I have ever posted in a hot deals thread, but this is great! Thanks OP!

I too love alcohol!

KT

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
does alcohol 52% allow for the creation of cd/dvd images? if so, im in, because Dtools doesn't do image creation, only virtual drive emulation

Alc 120% does the creation of images, it is not free

i know

 

[RaiderJ]

Daemon Tools does have right-click integration, but you have to download a tool for it.... I forget what it's called, but I always find it on the DT homepage somewhere.

If anyone knows of a way to mount RAR compressed images, let me know! Right now I have a folder on my desktop called "Images" where I extract all the images I'm currently using. Then I just open that folder and mount an image. It works, but I'd like an easier way to access the hundreds of images I have on my file server.

 

[palswim]

Originally posted by: kevman
right click to mount and ISO ? Damn thats i the one thing I wish DT had

This is my context menu registry code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.Index.cue\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools]
@="&Mount in Device 0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.Index.cue\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\DAEMON Tools\\daemon.exe\" -mount 0,\"%1\""


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.Index.mds\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools]
@="&Mount in Device 0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.Index.mds\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\DAEMON Tools\\daemon.exe\" -mount 0,\"%1\""


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.iso\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools]
@="&Mount in Device 0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.iso\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\DAEMON Tools\\daemon.exe\" -mount 0,\"%1\""


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.nrg\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools]
@="&Mount in Device 0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.nrg\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\DAEMON Tools\\daemon.exe\" -mount 0,\"%1\""


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.img\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools]
@="&Mount in Device 0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Image.img\shell\Mount with Daemon Tools\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\DAEMON Tools\\daemon.exe\" -mount 0,\"%1\""

But, I've set up my environment so all my image files are of class "Image.[something]", so you'd have to update it accordingly. It was a little work at 1st, but now it works fantastically.

If anybody wants, I can send him the registry files I use to make all my image files of uniform type.

 

[MikeDawg]

What was the previous license on Alcohol 52%? Hasn't it always been freeware?

 

[airjrdn]

Virtual Clone Drive (freeware) is another alternative.
http://www.elby.ch/fun/software/index.html

 

[marulee]

Good deal. Thanks.