Laurie Brown-Goodwine on December 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM wrote:
Here's your solution: Go to the root of your hard drive on the desktop(double-click on it) and open System: Library: CoreServices: Menu Extras. Inside that window, double-click on the icon called Eject.menu. You may want to hold down the OPTION key and drag it to the desktop to make a copy there, but once you start the application, it will put an eject symbol in the right side of the white menu bar above the desktop. When you click on it, you just have to choose Open SuperDrive/DVD Drive/CD etc. or Close SuperDrive...
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