Showing posts with label CD-roms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CD-roms. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Eject that CD or DVD the lazy way

After recently writing about context menus and the 'Applications' key, I remembered that you can eject your CD or DVD drive tray using Windows, rather than having to press that little button, which - for some reason - the drive manufacturers put beneath the tray. So if you have to reach down to your...

Monday, 8 October 2007

Four Hardware Tips: CD/DVD drives and scanning

Eject the CD or DVD drive when your PC is switched offYou will need some sort of pin (or straightened paper clip) which you can push into the small hole on most CD or DVD drives to manually eject the tray.Stop your DVD playback stutteringIf Windows detects a problem with one of the drives on your PC, it may reset the disk controller mode to a slower level, causing DVD play back to halt intermittently.To...