Dealing with ISOs in Vista

Vista can’t natively write ISOs to disc. I always used to use Fireburner on XP but that doesn’t seem to work on Vista because I can’t see where to disable Vista’s built in burning app. After some searching I found the solution: ISO recorder. Here’s some good stuff on how to write iso files to cd and how to mount iso files in Vista.

WinZip frustration

So I’m backing up my laptop by zipping up my user directory and copying it over to another box. After more than 20 gigs of archive have been created I run out of disk space. What does WinZip do? It aborts! Would it be so much to ask for it to prompt me to abort or retry so I can free up some space and not have to wait forever to do this all over again? While I’m on the subject, backing up my windows boxes is annoying. What is the best software to backup windows?