{"id":302080,"date":"2019-04-08T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=302080"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:18:13","slug":"windows-10-drops-default-option-to-safely-remove-usb-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/302080-windows-10-drops-default-option-to-safely-remove-usb-drives.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 drops default option to safely remove USB drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4495263\/windows-10-1809-change-in-default-removal-policy-for-external-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>dropped the default option<\/strong><\/a> to &#8220;safely remove&#8221; USB drives in the latest version of Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>The default policy for removable storage devices in the Windows 10 1809 build is now Quick Removal, which negates the need to safely remove USB drives before unplugging them.<\/p>\n<p>This means that users can simply unplug their USB device without fear of losing data.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 users can still select the &#8220;Better performance&#8221; policy in the operating system&#8217;s Disk Management settings, which requires users to conduct the &#8220;safely remove hardware&#8221; action before removing an external storage device.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Better performance&#8221; option allows Windows 10 to cache disk write operations to improve disk write speed and the &#8220;safely remove hardware&#8221; process protects the integrity of data on the device by making sure that all cached operations finish.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/301516-windows-7-is-finally-dying.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 7 is finally dying<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has dropped the default option to &#8220;safely remove&#8221; USB drives in the latest version of Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":291392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,58436,58434,26970],"class_list":["post-302080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-safely-remove","tag-usb-drives","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302100,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302080\/revisions\/302100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}