One of the most annoying things in Windows is safely ejecting USB disks from File Explorer. It’s slow, and unreliable. With USB Disk Ejector, however, you’ll finally get rid of this annoyance for good by removing USB jump drives using a quick keyboard shortcut.
Third party applications are one of the best things that happen to any OS. They’re meant to fill those gaps which the OS didn’t manage to do or to provide some sort of functionality that you think you need and is not provided by the OS. These developers have done an outstanding job when it comes to developing excellent apps for our benefit and this tutorial features one of them.
As mentioned earlier, it is extremely annoying to go over to the File Explorer to safely remove our plugged-in flash drives. Of course, you do have the luxury to simply plug it out without the safely eject option but in the best interests of your computer, we would recommend you not to do that.
We do however have a rabbit in our hat to prevent you from going over to the File Explorer every time. Ladies and gentlemen! Without further due introducing our guest for this tutorial, the USB Disk Ejector!
USB Disk Ejector is a simple and easy to use third party application. It allows you to create a hotkey from where you can safely eject your USB drive without having to sneak into your File Explorer all the time or simply eject the drive from its interface. This works better even for those of you who right-click on the connected drive icon in the system tray.
Steps to quickly and safely remove or eject USB drives in Windows using a shortcut
How does USB Disk Ejector work? Read on after the jump to know.
Step 1: Download USB Disk Ejector from the link below.
Download USB Disk Ejector for Windows 10 [Quick and Easy Software]
Step 2: Extract its contents.
Step 3: Run the USB_Disk_Eject.exe file.
Step 4: You can simply double click on the USB drive to eject it or click on more to create a keyboard shortcut/hotkey as shown in the image below.
Step 5: After clicking on more, click on Options.
Step 6: From the left side menu, click on Hotkeys.
Step 7: From the drop down menu below Hotkeys, select Eject a drive – by drive label.
Step 8: On the empty drop down menu below the previous drop down, click to select the name of your USB drive.
Step 9: In the text field beside the first drop down menu, enter the key you want to become the shortcut as shown in the image below and click Ok.
That’s it. Note that you need to keep the .exe file open all the time for the hotkey to work. Minimizing it would be the best option and you need not to worry about it effecting your computer’s performance, as USB Disk Ejector is a light, background application.
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