Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device

do you know the dreaded

"Windows can't stop your 'Generic Volume' device because its in use."

But there might be a solution for developers using Tortoise(CVS|SVN|GIT)

When you are running tortoise it is most likely that you have not reconfigured the default settings.
In icon overlays you can configure in which folders tortoise is putting overlays on the files

using the default settings tortoise opens handles to all fixed drives!

It seems that those handles remain with system after killing the tortoise cache process

However changing this part of the tortoise configuration can make life a lot easier as only the actual source code drive is locked by tortoise.

I am still researching for other possible reasons why this is happening so much on Vista even after sysinternals handle cannot find any handles to the drive in question anymore.....

RemoveDrive on http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html works best for me so far.
Using WinBubble I managed to add a call to RemoveDrive into the context menu of the disks.
This is what I was always missing for ages on all versions of windows (now Vista) since the advent of USB drives.

(BTW: Vista is working ok when you switch off the transparency gimmick)