Here is a project I just started, written in C# and WPF. Just thought to mention it here for those that might be interested in contributing or using.

SRU is a Windows Utility software that allows users to assign hotkeys (e.g Ctrl + Alt + Z) for use in safely removing USB drives. It was inspired by the majority of people I see around clicking on Ctrl + Alt when attempting to remove USB. I sincerely don't know where the got idea came from as it doesn't work. This is me trying to help.

FYI as for now it's in a Beta state, the only thing you can do with the project is to Press Ctrl + Alt + Z to eject a connected USB drive and there's a functionless notification Icon (I'm only trying to put the bits and pieces together). Also, I haven't implemented any form of test as most of the current functions mostly relates to the Win32 native api. I'm currently really busy at work. Hopefully over the weekend I'll add more features. Can't wait to get started with the UI, I love them clean, classy and simple. So you can watch the project if you want to get updates on the progress.

https://github.com/yemikudaisi/safely-remove-usb

So as regards this project, made a relative amount of progress today. Finally had time to put some GUIs in-place (hoping to get feedbacks here, note that the UI is independent of the Windows OS version) and wired them up. Here are some pictures of the work in progress to put you in perspective.

The options menu only shows when you double click on the app notification icon at the task bar. While the toast notifications are activated by hotkeys.

In fact, I've already started using the app on my system. It's pretty nifty to have a windows hotkey eject flash drives for you. May be I'll include a alpha release soon.