I read in several threads where people had difficulty opening their CD drives and had to resort to the old paper clip trick etc. Here is a great tool that can address that issue and many others.

How many of you ever heard of Wizmo? It is a tiny program 37KB it was developed many years ago by Steve Gibson legendary computer security expert. You simply send an icon of the program to your desktop. Right clicking brings up the properties box. In target line you add the command you wish such as open d. When you click on the icon the program will open your drive. You can add a second Wizmo icon instructing that icon to close your drive.

There is at least a dozen different operations you can make an icon for. such as Reboot and many others. It is an amazing little tool. Gibson also has a thing called Shields Up that will test your firewall and tell you if there are any leaks or open ports exposing you to hackers.

I found this little beauty about twenty years ago. It works in any windows operating system from windows 3.1 to win7 I won't be without it.

Here is a link to the DL page with complete instructions how to use it. Gibson has lots of free security programs. It is worth checking out. Wizmo is a great tool.

WIZMO

Thanks oldmariner, will look into it.
Richard

Thanks for the tip about Wizmo, Oldmariner.

No problem I have been following Gibson's site for a long time. He is the guy who caught Real Audio monitoring people who downloaded their program. He had a long blog on his site showing how they were doing it. Even though RA denied it he got them stop doing it and apologize.

His site was under attack by some hackers and he showed how he set up a dummy pc with only one program designed to trap incoming packets. When the guy attacked again he was able trace the packets back. Not only did he identify the attacker's address, name and phone number the FBI got a conviction in federal court. He is nobody to mess with when it comes to security.

That program he designed "Shields Up" is pretty amazing you should check it out.

I put a couple wizmo icons on my task bar for reboot and open cds. Really comes in handy sometimes.

That's the guy who did Shields Up? That program is amazing.

Yes Drac he is the one who created that program.

Here is a quote from his "resume"

"While attending High School, Gibson conceived, implemented, and taught two years of computer science electronics curriculum. The resulting courseware was then expanded throughout the San Mateo Union High School District and is still being taught today. While attending high school, Gibson was employed by the prestigious Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), working alongside Stanford's post-graduate students and helping with their fundamental doctoral research.

You can read some of his accomplishments here.

GRC

Very impressive!