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Indybird
08-11-2007, 03:05 AM
This is going to be very hard to describe, so bare with me here...

What I want to do is make a shortcut, either desktop shortcut or hotkey that will eject a disk drive of my choice.

I might go as far as to make a USB device that has eject buttons on it that have assignable eject options...

Thanks,
Indybird

jdbnsn
08-11-2007, 03:12 AM
I think this (http://www.vicman.net/download.php?Title=HotKey%20CD-Eject) is a free program that will help.

Indybird
08-11-2007, 03:18 AM
Thats pretty nice, but I need something a little more solid. Something that has options for multiple drives/shortcuts: that one will only do one at a time...

Thanks,
Indybird

+rep for fast response/understanding my descriptions

Bucko
08-11-2007, 04:04 AM
Thats pretty nice, but I need something a little more solid. Something that has options for multiple drives/shortcuts: that one will only do one at a time...



The website says this though:


The tool works with multiple CD-ROM drives, letting you assign different hotkeys for different drives, and can load on startup.

OvRiDe
08-11-2007, 05:13 AM
I use this

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

I don't use it to eject the CD. I use it to put my monitors into sleep mode when I leave the computer. I have a MS Multimedia keyboard and was able to map the command to the "logout" button on the keyboard. You can use this in a command line or make a shortcut or batch file, whatever you desire.

It also has alot of other pretty useful commands as well.

slytherock
08-11-2007, 11:36 AM
I usr desktop sidebar or different reason, but the cd eject shortcut is one of them (http://www.desktopsidebar.com/)