How to disable the DVD player?

I'm running Ableton Live on my MacBook, and need to squeeze every last bit of performance out of my machine. According to what I've read, many Ableton users recommend 'disabling' the DVD player.
How is this done? Is it just a matter of setting the CD and DVD loading proceedure to 'Ignore' under system prefs? On a PC I can do a few different things to turn off any drives, but I'm new to Macs and not quite sure...

Probably, what the article you read meant is to turn off auto start features for CD/DVD. You can do that by opening System Preferences (by default, the right-most icon on the Dock). Look in the Hardware category for CDs& DVDs. Click to open the settings, then set the actions you don't want to happen upon disc insertion to, "Ignore."
I don't believe you'll get any measurable performance improvement when there is no disc in the drive, if you change the settings. The benefit would be that you wouldn't be annoyed by having a program pop up if you happened to put a disc in the drive while you were doing something else. You'll save some CPU cycles that would have been used to detect the disc type.

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HT2499 how to get mac dvd player not to play all and stop at each title?

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Play all chapters, i mean.
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I managed to delete the DVD player from my Equium

Please can anyone help me?
I managed to delete the dvd player from my laptop - fool that I am !
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What notebook do you have exactly and what DVD player do you mean?
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Why you dont try to reverse this using the Windows system restore tool?
You could set the OS to the early time point before the DVD player has been deleted.
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