If you’re a big fan of portable storage - USB flash disks, external hard drives, even your iPod - you know the annoyance brought about by having to eject them first from your OS before yanking off the USB plug. It’s a two-stroke process for Windows users (left clicking that icon in the system tray and selecting the device from the list or if you’re doing that two-dialog right-click option).

Another problem with Windows XP is that, if you have, multiple devices connected, it doesn’t really specify which one is which. Oh and that error message saying you can’t remove the hardware because it is in use message even if the device is absolutely idle and you’re not running anything at all.

So that’s when we thank the freeware gods for this nifty tool. USB Disk Ejector is a small and portable application that offers you a one-click solution to ejecting them devices. You have the option to run it via command line or a GUI. Best of all, it can be part of your Swiss Army flash disk arsenal of portable tools. It works even when run on the portable device.

Download USB Disk Ejector here.