DVD Tray That Won’t Eject
I just bought a new (well, refurbished) Sony Media Center PC, and while it’s working fine for the most part, there’s one annoying glitch: The Blu-ray drive’s Eject button doesn’t work.
Consequently, discs stay trapped in the drive unless I minimize Windows Media Center, open Computer, right-click the drive icon, and choose Eject. Talk about a hassle!
While I’m working to resolve this with Sony’s tech support, I need a faster, easier solution. And I found one: a tiny freeware app called, simply enough, EjectCD.
After extracting the program from the Zip file, I pinned it to the Windows 7 taskbar. (Vista users can do likewise by enabling the Quick Launch toolbar and dragging it there.)
Now a single click of the EjectCD icon pops open the drive. Even better, I can just as easily use a keyboard shortcut.
See, every icon in the taskbar (and Quick Launch toolbar) is automatically assigned a numerical value: 1 for the icon closest to the Start button, 2 for the next one, and so on. Pressing the Windows key and that number launches that program.
Source: PCWorld