Windows and USB drives

 After so long why is it that it's still so hard to eject a Usb drive.

Windows frequently grabs on to the drive and refuses to let it eject. Even after stopping all applications and closing explorer windows, even killing some processes (even explorer.exe), most of the time it's still not possible to remove a drive cleanly. It's one of the longest standing issues with windows that never seems to get fixed.

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