It's a real pain not to mention slow--to continually swap CDs and DVDs out of your optical drive. It can take up to half-a-minute for the drive to load a disc. Garners who must leave a copy-protected disc in the drive in order to playa game are especially affected. But that issue can be solved by the freeware DaemonTools Lite, which emulates a CD/ DVD drive and lets you "mount" disc images (files containing all information from a disc) to a virtual drive that behaves exactly like a real one.