Thank you for replying.
“On Windows XP, 7 and 8 that can be configured to show always, why isn’t it config’ed that way for you?”
I was talking about the right click menu. There, the eject-item is vanished.
I know about the taskbar item to hide or unhide, but find it not very handy to be forced to have one icon more all the time in my taskbar…
“So did SanDisk silently changed their policy and defines these USB-Sticks fundamentally as Disk-Drives?”
What my assumption concerns I was right. SanDisk changed their products to fundamentally Local Disks.