![]() Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Eject the CD/DVD Drive. After writing articles about how to open the Safely Remove dialog as well as eject a specific USB drive, some readers contacted me asking me to write about how to eject a CD or DVD drive instead, so I’m covering that here. There’s a number of ways to accomplish this, but the best way is to use the Nir. Cmd utility from the excellent Nirsoft. It does a lot more than just eject the cd- rom drive, so be sure to read the information on their site about all the capabilities. Create a Shortcut to Eject the CD/DVD Drive. Right- click on the desktop or elsewhere and choose New \ Shortcut. ![]() ![]() ![]() Right-click on the desktop or elsewhere and choose New \ Shortcut. In the location box, put the full path to the nircmd.exe file that you downloaded, and append the. ![]()
In the location box, put the full path to the nircmd. C: \path\to\nircmd. Create Direct Shortcut for “Notification Area Icons” in Windows Vista and Later - If we want to customize notification area icons settings in Windows 7 or later. Creating a shutdown shortcut in Windows will allow you to shutdown your computer in a single click. This can be. Windows 7’s new shortcut keys get all the attention these days. Many people forget that every version of Windows has offered hundreds of shortcut keys. ![]() D: Note the location of the quotes. On the Shortcut tab you’ll see a place to assign the Shortcut key: Add in the shortcut key and close the dialog. As long as the shortcut is on your desktop you shouldn’t have to restart anything for the hotkey to work. You can also move the shortcut to another folder, for instance your quick launch bar. Tip: If you add the shortcut to the Windows Vista quick launch bar, you can use the built- in hotkeys instead of bothering to assign one manually. ![]() Assign an Icon to the Shortcut. If you click on the Change Icon button in the properties window, you can give the shortcut a more meaningful icon, perhaps the DVD one you see below. You could choose any icon on the system that you’d like, of course. Download Nir. Cmd from nirsoft.
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