Straighten a paperclip and look for a tiny hole on the drive tray and push the clip in there until the tray pops out.
Slot load works the same way.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3007
No such thing as unwriteable cd's with no data on them. Makes no sense. Your writer is broken or not installed correctly, you have no writer or the software isn't working correctly. One of the three.
No need for a gadget for shortcuts on the bottom. Just right click the taskbar (bottom bar) by the start button and choose toolbars, Quick Launch. Now all you have to do is drag and drop shortcuts to folders and websites and whatever else you want to the quick launch bar.
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Buy a quaility splitter and split the line at the most convenient point then run a line from there over to your caravan.
The wireless idea isn't a good one as the signal loss is too much.
"Loading your music, pictures and video is a snap, simply drag and drop them into the video MP3 player on your computer"
Says it all right there. I dislike ipods and especially itunes. No need for all that. A plain ol' video/mp3 player is so much easier.
Go for the Sony.
I doubt it and their Vista compatible scanners page doesn't have the driver either. Scanners are cheap enough nowadays, i'd just go buy a new one that is Vista compatible.