Posted July 8, 200519 yr Hey, was wondering if anyone knew how to open others people CD drives? I have seen this done on multiple people and myself. Was wondering if anyone knew. Thanks for the help.
July 8, 200519 yr You can do this in Windows 2000 or above in a domain by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting Manage. Right-click Computer Management, and select "Connect to another Computer"; from here just select a computer, or type in its NetBIOS/DNS name. Now you can go down to "Removable Storage->Physical Locations", and right-click and choose eject (Inject is to close the drive).
July 8, 200519 yr Hey, was wondering if anyone knew how to open others people CD drives? I have seen this done on multiple people and myself. Was wondering if anyone knew. Thanks for the help. you press the button on the cd drive idiot.
July 8, 200519 yr Since this is programming help, I'll show you a way to do it with win32 assembly =) invoke mciSendString,_cmd_open,0,0,0 invoke mciSendString,_cmd_eject,0,0,0 invoke mciSendString,_cmd_close,0,0,0 mciSendString is from WINMM.DLL. It has a unicode version too (mciSendStringW), so use mciSendStringA if you don't have unicode support.
July 8, 200519 yr start -> run -> cmd net use z: \\computername\x$ where computername is the name of the remote computer, and x the drivename of the cd-rom, and z the drivename you want to use for it locally you might be prompted for a pw depending on your network config/credentials after this, the remote cd-rom will appear in your 'my computer' as drive z to remove: net use * /d
July 9, 200519 yr VB is what most kids learn in 3rd grade to "encourage them to learn about technology" and I am so serious at least half of my class knew VB by 3rd grade. just had to make you feel idiotic for mentioning VB as a practical programming language
July 10, 200519 yr Actually, many of the problems that dubbed Visual Basic as a "toy language" have been fixed with modern Visual Basic.NET. Visual Basic.NET is a lot different from the older version (i.e. includes true OOP techniques, and as of .NET 2.0 includes some generic programming concepts). Also .NET has put less emphasis on the language (everything gets translated to the same IL), and thus the language has become even less important. With all that, many programmers in the world make a living using VB, and in a Windows Network, vbscript (a dialect of VB) is one of the few languages that give native support for scripting. While, I don't use VB myself (I prefer C#), its not really about the language, but rather the solution that counts.
July 10, 200519 yr Actually, many of the problems that dubbed Visual Basic as a "toy language" have been fixed with modern Visual Basic.NET. Visual Basic.NET is a lot different from the older version (i.e. includes true OOP techniques, and as of .NET 2.0 includes some generic programming concepts). Also .NET has put less emphasis on the language (everything gets translated to the same IL), and thus the language has become even less important. With all that, many programmers in the world make a living using VB, and in a Windows Network, vbscript (a dialect of VB) is one of the few languages that give native support for scripting. While, I don't use VB myself (I prefer C#), its not really about the language, but rather the solution that counts. exactly, when I refer to VB, usually Im referring to VB.NET, but many of the same things youc an do in other languages (such as C++) you can do in VB with variances in difficulty compared to other languages. But I dont want to get into another argument like this, Im jsut saying my piece.
