There are programs you first think of as unnecessary, but once you use them for more than a quarter of an hour you get quite the opposite impression and can't imagine your without them. In this case it is opening and closing your CD-ROM drive with HotKey CD-Eject.
     HotKey CD-Eject is a small utility that lets you eject CDs with a hotkey combination or a double-click on the program icon. You can choose the hotkey yourself - it can be a single key or a combination of up to four keystrokes. The program icon is always available in the system tray - if you don't want to start the program manually, you can opt for it loading itself on startup. The tool doesn't eat up much memory and its icon needs just a tiny spot on your desktop. The icon, actually, changes its color showing you if there's something in the CD-ROM drive to eject.
     The tool works with multiple CD-ROM drives (you get the option of choosing the main drive that will be ejected when you double-click the icon). It is simple yet functional and reliable. Try it today and get to know the freedom of ejecting CDs with a keystroke!