How to eject a USB drive with a hotkey

When you plug in a USB drive into your Windows desktop or laptop, the system, mounts the drive and uses the contents. Either the files are scanned by an antivirus or the storage is being indexed by the operating system itself. Pulling out the USB storage without ejecting it using the proper method (right-click on the USB icon on the system tray and clicking on the ‘Eject USB flash drive’) could spell a disaster to the contents on the storage drive. In short, you could lose precious data on your pen drive if you don’t eject it the right way.

A free and simple 1MB utility from quickandeasysoftware.net called USB Disk Ejector can help you safely eject your USB storage drive with just a simple hotkey of your choice. Though the utility does the exact work you might do manually, the automated hotkey can help save you that trouble of extra clicks (and time) and also ensure that you can safely remove the USB drive from the PC.

The utility is also portable. It can be stored and used on a removable device like a pen drive. It can even eject the disk that it is running from. It doesn’t require administrator rights and doesn’t need installing. There are many features that can be customized—such as hotkeys, positioning, notifications and post-eject actions.

It can also eject disks when Windows sometimes cannot. If any applications are running from a disk then Windows won’t be able to eject it. USB Disk Ejector can detect and auto-close any applications running from the disk before ejecting. Please note this closes applications that were launched from the disk not applications that have opened a file on the disk. The utility is compatible with Windows XP and above and works with both 32-bit as well as 64-bit versions.