Hereafter, just use the assigned keyboard shortcut to open the USB Drive in Windows 11 or Windows 10. Related: USB Disk Ejector lets you eject USB Disk with a keyboard shortcut.

Create a shortcut to eject USB! Learn how to create Safely Remove Hardware Keyboard or Desktop Shortcut in Windows 11/10 using this trick.

Don't waste time navigating to your often-used USB drive. Set up your own keyboard shortcut Many of us use external USB-connected drives on a regular basis.

Obviously, don't remove a drive while transferring data, as you'll corrupt that data, but that's a no-brainer. The main reason for hitting "eject" or "safely remove hardware" is write caching.

The whole point of external USB-connected storage is that you can easily unplug it, but Windows's Eject Mass Storage option balks sometimes. Resist the urge to yank out the drive and try one of ...