It's easier (feel like a fool for not knowing that one though ) but not as easy as dragging it to the trash.

I'd like to be able to do NOTHING, period. In win98, I don't have to mess with anything to unplug a USB device, I just unplug the thing. Why does 2000 have to be different?

And don't tell me it's better because it forces the write-behind cache to flush. Windows 2000 does not complain when I unplug a memory card from the flash reader. It only complains when I unplug the flash reader itself, whether or not a memory card is inserted. So it's got nothing to do with the cache.