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Date Posted: 7/13/12

I have a DVD drive that does not work properly.  It seems to always think that the drive is in use and so will not open if you push the button to open it.  What allows it to open is if I go into the device manager and disable and the enable the DVD drive.  After that it works fine until the next time I restart my computer.  That being the case I have started looking for ways to shorten the steps needed to do this.  For now creating a shortcut to the device manager is what I am using.  If I create a shortcut I add devmgmt.svc as the destination.  Alternately, I can go into the WINDOWS/system32 folder and find devmgmt.msc icon and right click the file to create a shortcut and drag the shortcut to the desktop.

Another option is to use DevCon, a Microsoft program (if it is from Microsoft there is a high probability it is a reliable program that does what it says it will do and only what it says it will do ), which will allow you to enable and disable a hardware device as a shortcut.  I have not tried this out yet, so I can not speak to its ease of use ref.  

Other programs like this from Microsoft that I have used is one that will alter the background wallpaper of folders and another that permanently sets the CPU affinity of a program ref.



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