With Windows 10 1809, Microsoft drops safe removal of USB drives as the default option

To safely remove or not to safely remove? That is the question... although another one might reasonably be, 'well, what difference does it really make?'. 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… [Continue Reading]