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Microsoft Drops 'Safe Removal' of USB Drives As Default In Windows 10 1809 (betanews.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the just-yank-it-out dept.

Mark Wilson writes: Since the arrival of USB drives, we have been warned that they need to be 'safely removed' using the correct method in Windows, rather than just being yanked out — but now this changes.

With Windows 10 1809, Microsoft is changing the default setting that's applied to USB drives and other removable media. The change means that the default policy applied to removable storage devices is Quick Removal rather than Better Performance — so you can now just pull it out without a second thought.

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  1. Re:Good luck with that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So did early macs. It was particularly fun if you only saw the message *after* you'd done passed the disc to a friend, who had, say, completely overwritten it.

    Mac: please insert disc x.
    User: but it no longer exists.
    Mac (refusing to do anything else): please insert disc x.
    User: I can't!
    Mac (still refusing to do anything): please insert disc x.
    User: Oh ffs... here's the disc, though you probably won't recognise it.
    Mac (still stuck): please insert disc x.
    User: Oh ffs *yanks cable*.

  2. Re:Who cares what MS says by PPH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Software is like sex. Make just one mistake and you've got to provide support for a lifetime.

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  3. Re: Good luck with that by flargleblarg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I yank mine constantly.

    Don't we all. It just feels so good.

  4. Sometimes it won't let you by Latent+Heat · · Score: 3, Funny

    I get this condition, especially after editing a large MS-Word file on a USB drive and exiting, that Windows never tells you it is OK to pull out the drive.

    I am in a hurry, late for a meeting or to catch a ride home, and I never get the "Safe to Remove" message. So I end up having to do a Shut down on the computer to remove the drive when Windows has saved ev-er-y-thing it has cached, but wouldn't you know it, I have to wait for an Update to complete before Windows even shuts down.

    This is when one wants to throw the computer out the window, but I never know if it is OK to yank the USB drive before doing this?

  5. Solved a long time ago by DrYak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I agree that these problems already had solution a lon....

    Disk access failure.
    Abort, Retry, Fail? _

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