Nowadays, most of us seldom use our optical drives since everything is downloaded. If you'd like to see your optical drive get some love, turn it into an iPod dock with some scissors and an old CD, ...

It's happened to you. I know it has. You've just finished watching your favorite movie on DVD, then press the eject button on your DVD player. Nothing happens. You press again. And again. And again.

QUESTION: I just cannot open my CD-writer manually or using eject command on my Windows XP computer. The green light comes on in the front of the tray, but nothing ...

QUESTION: The CD tray on my Windows 95 PC opens only periodically. It's similar to an earlier problem in your listings, except that the CD tray invariably opens after rebooting. At other times it may ...

Windows only: Freeware applications from web site E-sushi put common Windows actions—like opening and closing your CD or DVD drive—in your system tray. Apart from the eject system tray shortcut ...

The CD tray on my Dell Inspiron 1100 will stay closed when the computer is off. As soon as the computer powers on (during BIOS, before Windows) the CD tray opens and will not close. If I push the tray ...

On a older Toshiba Laptop, the CD tray won't stay closed. It is open a inch. When I try to push it closed, it just springs open again. There is no 'click' when it normally would ;latch. This just ...

A few months back I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step to take given that few PCs these days come with one. A reader who uses Vista ...