Sometimes, a third-party application will mess up the default options and the mount option will seem missing in Windows 10 or Windows 8.1. In this article, we’ll see how to fix the mount option missing in Windows 10 which had been messed up by a third-party app. If you do not have the mounting option in your context menu for an ISO file, you can follow the steps below to enable it. There are several ways to fix the issue.
Add Mount ISO Option to Context Menu Using Settings App
Follow the steps below to select File Explorer as the default app for ISO and IMG files, which in turn will show the “Mount” option in the context menu when you right-click an IMG or ISO image: Now you can mount any ISO file easily and use this Windows feature.
Add Mount ISO Option to Context Menu Using Control Panel
Note: This method has been deprecated as Microsoft has shifted the relevant controls to the Settings app from the legacy Control Panel. Follow the steps below to add the “Mount” option to the context menu using the Control Panel:
Closing Words
Although there are other files formats available on the internet, such as DMG, but are not natively supported by Windows. Thankfully, ISO and IMG files are very commonly used, and thus Microsoft had decided to support these image files. For that reason, users can directly mount such images to their PCs and can use them, without any third-party applications. Also see:
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