Imagine: it’s a summer evening. You are sitting in front of your home computer and playing Solitaire or any other computer game you like. After some time you decide to have a rest. When you return to the room, you find your child playing with CD, DVD or Blue-ray drive of the computer. Of course, DVD drive is a rather fragile device, and it’s very easy to break it down. Soon you find out that it’s even easier than you could imagine. After buying a new drive for optical disks you start to search the solution that can help you to lock the device and thus prevents your child from playing with it. Though there is a number of freeware utilities designed to lock CD/DVD drives, the most advanced and comfortable in use is not a free one. Before writing this article I have tested three different freeware utilities (I won’t name them in order to avoid offending of their developers) and decided to buy the pay one. The first of these freeware utilities refused to run under Windows Vista, the second one could lock only one DVD drive of the two installed on my computer, and the third one removed the lock after computer’s waking up from sleep mode. I decided to pay a bit more and obtain the utility running under Windows Vista, working with any amount of CD/DVD drives and providing reliable protection for those devices. The utility I liked most is called CD-Door Guard. It’s easy to find it here: http://www. m-w-c-s. com. You can download trial version that will work for 10 days after you install it. The price of CD-Door Guard is $15 per license. I suppose this purchase is a good investment because you save about $50 on each drive that you can protect using it. That’s not an advertisement; I speak as a satisfied buyer of this software. What do you get for your money? CD-Door Guard has 10 times more functions than any other freeware utility. It will automatically close the CD/DVD drive’s tray after certain time if you forget to do it; it supports hot-keys to open or close the drive’s tray. The utility even reminds about forgotten disks inside the drive when you switch off the computer or switch it to sleep mode. You can choose different settings for each installed drive for optical disks. For laptop users CD-Door Guard offers locking DVD drive when Windows goes to sleep mode. Now when you push the button on the DVD drive, it won’t open and you won’t crash it. DVD drive also can be locked when Windows starts. You can customize “sound effects” and make CD-Door Guard beep when it locks or unlocks DVD drives. The only inconvenience is that the sound of CD-Door Guard is similar to the sound played by my antivirus when it detects a malware. So I had to turn off this option in CD-Door Guard. The main disadvantage of CD-Door Guard is a large number of different switches in options window. I was a bit confused when I saw them for first time. But after studying them attentively you find out that all these switches are useful in different cases. CD-Door Guard supports different languages: it’s useful for those users whose native language is not English. If you speak not only English, you can create translation of CD-Door Guard and receive a registration key without paying money. As it was mentioned above, I’m a user of CD-Door Guard, and I can definitely say that this utility does 100% of what it is supposed to do. I can rate CD-Door Guard with the highest mark. It’s simply the best utility you can choose to prevent the crash of CD/DVD drive.
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