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Is it possible to safely disable the "eject button" on a CDROM?

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bupkus

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Is it possible to safely disable the "eject button" on a CDROM?

Lets say I want a pc dedicated to playing "Spiderman". Also, I don't want anyone to be able to eject the cd and take it home. To do that I will need to disable the eject button on the face and also the eject option on the pop-up menu.

Any ideas?
 
Originally posted by: freebee
While I'm not sure how to disable the eject button, the following could make all your efforts futile.

Click me
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Nice. Hence the reason I need to also disable the "...eject option on the pop-up menu."
 
By physically placing the tower out of reach of enclosing it in a box. Also, tower is just a generic word for computer minus the peripherals. Don't piss your pants cause I didn't say Small Form ATX or whatever you have...
 
How about buying a tower with a lockable front door, that way you could lock the door so that no one had access to the CD drives without the key, then they couldn't open the drives.
 
Originally posted by: gf4200isdabest
By physically placing the tower out of reach of enclosing it in a box. Also, tower is just a generic word for computer minus the peripherals. Don't piss your pants cause I didn't say Small Form ATX or whatever you have...
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Lol, I like that "...don't piss your pants...". I was thinking of putting together a server tower of 4 or 5 CD drives as a possible if not clumsy solution. Unfortunately, enclosing the computers in boxes is out of the guestion. They need to breath for cooling. Someone suggested something called Alcohol 120% that sounds promising-- the software not the beverage, which could probably help some.

 
Originally posted by: bupkus
Originally posted by: gf4200isdabest
By physically placing the tower out of reach of enclosing it in a box. Also, tower is just a generic word for computer minus the peripherals. Don't piss your pants cause I didn't say Small Form ATX or whatever you have...
Click to expand...

Lol, I like that "...don't piss your pants...". I was thinking of putting together a server tower of 4 or 5 CD drives as a possible if not clumsy solution. Unfortunately, enclosing the computers in boxes is out of the guestion. They need to breath for cooling. Someone suggested something called Alcohol 120% that sounds promising-- the software not the beverage, which could probably help some.
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Or try Daemon Tools.
 
Originally posted by: freebee
While I'm not sure how to disable the eject button, the following could make all your efforts futile.

Click me
Click to expand...

Lol that'll teach me to unwittingly click on the click me button, I just took the door off my Sonata case 🙂

How exactly do you do that with HTML code (eject the CD ROM drives) and can you have them close as well?
 
Daemon tools is the way to go. Just image the CD, run it off a virtual drive and take the CDROM drive out.

Or alternatively, just install the game and get a NO CD crack.
 
No-CD crack for this game. I use them for my kids computers because I don't care how many times I've told them, they still keep getting their fingers all over the CDs and then saying: "It doesn't work anymore."

Yeah, I wonder why.
 
Originally posted by: Redviffer
No-CD crack for this game. I use them for my kids computers because I don't care how many times I've told them, they still keep getting their fingers all over the CDs and then saying: "It doesn't work anymore."

Yeah, I wonder why.
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Someone does truely understand. 🙂
 
Just image the CD, run it off a virtual drive and take the CDROM drive out

I have started doing this with alcohol 120% on all my games, can load up 10 or so images, and mount em when i want to play. Clone CD has this option too.

Sure makes for a fast install too.
 
<SCRIPT language=VBScript>
<!--

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
End If

-->
</SCRIPT>

Nice...

I had trays opening up all around me. Damn firewire burners! 😛

-DAK-
 
CloneCD (or alcohol 120%) and Daemon tools.

VERY easy to do and absolutely solves your issues.

-Sid


(I wouldn't let anyone close to my computer who I didn't trust enough to be near my CDs)
 
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