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MilesAhead:
Heh heh.  I should have done it sooner but I'm reluctant to try stuff I can't test myself.  btw my web server is acting up.  Since I got a "disk full" error, like an idiot I tried deleting the file, then uploading.  Of course it let me delete the file, but didn't let me upload.  While this is being resolved Softpedia has graciously allowed me to host it on their servers.  You can download from them via this page:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/Tray.shtml

It just uses AutoIt3 CDROM "open" and "close" commands.  As long as I get the index into the array of CDROM type drives it should work.

In AutoIt3 help it also says it should "work as expected" on virtual CDROM drives also.  I take this to mean an "open" would unmount but I haven't tried it.

MilesAhead:
btw looks like my server regained its sanity.  You can always download the latest Tray from this page:

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

MilesAhead:
I ran across a nice open source CD emulator software WinCDEmu:

http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

For simple image mounting this software has several traits that make it convenient.
1) You don't have to allocate a drive letter until you mount an image.

2) The reason for my post.. if you use Tray Open Button on the drive letter, the image is unmounted just as if you selected Eject from the drive letter context menu.

3) At least on Vista, it went on, mounted and unmounted an image without rebooting the PC after install. PC World gave it a glowing review. In this case simple is good.  The emulator I was using had about 20 tray commands I never used.

The only reason I brought it up was AutoIt3 said the Open command I use in Tray should work with virtual drives.  This is the first one I tried that actually unmounted in response. Just makes it a bit more convenient than going into a tray sub menu. Of course the emulator software itself is set up to be convenient.  Double click of a supported image file mounts the image.  No messing around in tray icon sub menu to get to mount/unmount.  Also it supports mounting more than one image according to the site.

here's the PC World review:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,78250/description.html

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