Windows 10: Have to safely eject thumb drive exactly twice every time

This amounts to an annoyance only, but I thought I'd ask in case someone has a solution.
I find I always have to eject my thumb drive exactly twice.

• This happens on at least two laptops:
  • A Toshiba Satellite with Windows 10 Home 10586.545
  • An Asus X555LA also on the same build of Windows
• Most often I'm using a Cruzer SanDisk drive.
• This is when I use “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media” from the task bar.
• It always takes exactly two tries. First time get a pop up window “Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device” “Windows is unable to stop the device…” Second time works fine. Even when I do it immediately after the first.
• This happens when all docs involving the thumb drive and the apps that used them are all closed.
• It happens if I plug in the drive, don't do anything, then try to eject.
• Waiting before ejecting doesn’t seem to matter.
• In Task Manager I verified no associated apps running then tried it. Don’t know if there are pertinent background apps.
• If I right click on the drive in the File Explorer tree and select eject it works the first time.
• Another thumb drive, Attache 1GB, behaves the same way.
• Another thumb drive, Kingston 2 GB, behaves the same way.
• I think this happened on at least one of my computers before the Windows 10 upgrade, but I don’t remember the details.
• For the SanDisk at least, select in File Explorer, right click, Properties, Hardware tab, Properties, Change Settings, Policies: Quick Removal is selected.

Does anyone have a fix? Thanks.

:)

 

File Explorer in Windows 10

When I use a Thumb Drive it appears twice in the left hand Menu Bar, once in "This PC" and again as a separate item "Drive E" - when I try to eject it fails to complete "safely" as whichever option I click leaves the other option open. Previous versions
of Windows only showed the Thumb Drive once. Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Facing issues while removing the USB drive.

I backup my information regularly to a USB Drive. Every time I try to safely remove the device I get a notice that says it can't remove and to close out of things. I am already out of everything when I try to eject and I am
NOT trying to remove it too soon. I have waited as long as an hour or so before attempting and got the same response. It always works immediately the second time though.

Not a big problem as I just have to eject it twice, but it is a little annoying when I use 3 different USB devices and have to eject every one of them twice.

Note: Brand does not matter either. I have used SanDisk, Lexmark, and a no name USB.

Original title: Windows 10 and USB

 

Only thing I can think of, and seen happen, is the mouse click is not properly registering. Maybe a setting in Control Panel, Mouse needs looking at?

 

I'll check it, but my mouse works fine otherwise.
Thanks.

 

I see the same thing on .545 here , I just use File Explorer now instead....

seems to work fine on AU.82 with the same drive though.

 

I can verify exactly the same behavior on at least two different Dell Optiplex desktops running a Windows 10 Pro upgrade from Windows 7 Pro. I'd love to read an actual answer here. It's got nothing to do with bad mouse clicks.

 

1511 .898 update today did not fix it here.... but my Computer on AU.187 ? has no issues

 

I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but what do "545," "AU.82," "AU.187" refer to? Are they versions of Windows, BIOS numbers, chipset numbers, or ?

 

That's what has happened with technology advances, shorten data so as to get it posted from various devices. The AU.187 [first time to see it posted that way] refers to Windows 10 Version 1607 Build 14393.187 which is the most current for the RTM/Released version of Windows. Version 1607 is the AU or Anniversary Update [since the Version number changed it's more of an Upgrade].

 

HI PS , Berton has it correct , I was just being a bit lazy as the rest of the Number is the same for everyone, only the last 3 digits change for each upgrade. for each current version of Win10.

You can easily get yours with Windows KEY+R >Type winver (enter key) and you will get a dialog box (a DBX)

 

True for the RTM/Released version, the Insider Preview build number is greater such as Version 1607 Build 14901.1000 [mine].