Microsoft No Longer Gives A Fuck If You ‘Safely Remove’ Your USB

For as long as there have been USB thumb drives, there has been a procedure for safely removing them. When the option was clicked, it triggered a series of mysterious background processes, rendering your files safe from the perils of simply yanking out your drive. Now, Microsoft no longer gives a shit what you do.

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Well, to clarify, it depends on what you have your Windows computer set to when it comes to external drives. While the default has usually been ‘better performance,’ which requires you to ‘Safely Eject’ your hardware before unplugging it, the latest Windows 10 update has changed this. The default is now ‘quick removal,’ meaning you can pull that shit out with untamed enthusiasm, assuming you’re not in the middle of actively copying files to or from the device.

The change was actually made back in October last year but has only hit the spotlight now that Microsoft is alerting IT professionals.

While heading on down to the little safe remove icon at the bottom right corner of your desktop was standard procedure for quite some time, the ‘quick removal’ setting keeps your drive ready to be yanked out at any time, so you’ll no longer have to do it the old way, even though the icon is still present after the update.

I’ve been wantonly pulling my flash drives out of computers for years and to be honest, I’ve never had any problems, but the pros say it can certainly affect performance, as well as run the risk of corrupting your files.

Pull out all you like now folks, Microsoft doesn’t care anymore.


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