WinEject 2.00 is a System Utility product from wineject.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, WinEject is a small windows utility to open and close the tray of cd-rom and DVD drives. Other removable media (like ZIP disks or streamer tapes) can also be ejected.
Wineject features:
* Basic features
WinEject opens and closes drives with motor driven trays (like most cd-rom and dvd drives). With other drives using removable media (like ZIP drives or streamers) WinEject is able to eject inserted media.
* Control
WinEject is controlled using a little icon in the system tray area next to the clock. You can also assign shortcut keys ("hotkeys") for opening and closing drives.
* Automatic eject
WinEject is able to open all drives that contain disks when you log off from Windows. In case WinEject can't open a drive (like a normal floppy drive), a warning message is displayed. This way, you'll never forget your disks in the drives.
* Protection against loss of data
Before WinEject ejects writeable disks, it flushes the operating system's disk cache. All data is safely written to the disk. If you use the eject button on the drive it may happen that some data in the cache will not be written to the disk. In certain circumstances data may even be written on a disk that you insert afterwards, over writing data on this disk. With WinEject, you can avoid this problem.
* Locking drives
Some drives can be locked by WinEject. The manual eject button on the device will be disabled, only WinEject can open those drives in that case. This is usefull if you want to protect your disks if your computer is accessible by other people (for instance when you exhibit at a fair).
* Command line interface
The standard features like Open, Close, Lock and Unlock can be invoked using command line parameters. This allows you to use WinEject in batch files, for example to eject a disk automatically after a successful backup.
* Network support (NT, 2000, XP only)
WinEject contains a Windows service. If you install this on a computer (for instance your backup server) you're able to control the drives on this computer from another computer in your network remotly.
* Ejecting without administrator rights (NT, 2000, XP only)
After installing WinEjects Windows service on your local computer, other local users without administrative privileges are able to eject writable media on this computer. The license of this windows utility software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Windows Utility software.