Putting CD drives on the desktop??

[Mmm]

In WinME, I could copy a CD drive icon out of "My Computer" or
explorer, and put a shortcut on my desktop. If there was no CD in the
drive, double clicking gave an error message. When a CD was in place,
double clicking opened the disk.

In XP, this no longer works - I can drag the disk icon to my desktop
while the disc is in, but it won't work later.

Any suggestions?? This has got to be something simple.


thanks,

mh

 

[Chris]

Assuming the CD drive is the "D" drive
Right click anywhere on the desktop and go to New>Shortcut
Where it says Type the location of the item put "D:\" (without the quotes)
Then click Next
Type whatever name you want for this shortcut and click Finish