Microsoft Dumps ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Option From Windows 10

Windows 10 users can stop waiting for the safety dialogue box to remove hardware, but it could affect performance.

If you’re a Windows users then you would be pleased to know that Microsoft has said that you don’t need to eject devices every time by clicking on ‘safely remove hardware’ from the settings on the task bar.

This is a big revelation, something that’s annoyed Windows users for years, while they use pen drives or external storage drives on Windows PC or laptop.

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And to make this clear, Windows 10 version 1809 gets a new option called Quick Removal, while the previous Windows versions were using Better Performance as the default option. However, Microsoft wants users to know that using the quick removal option, their pen drive/external drive won’t perform to its full capability.

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The option is available only for Windows 10 users, which can be accessed by clicking on the arrow icon on the bottom right of the task bar. Clicking that, you’ll see the option ‘eject mass storage’ which lets users remove their drives without any issues.

The difference between using quick removal and better performance is going through the process of ‘safely remove hardware’ all the time. So, you can either improve the performance the storage drive, or remove a step to save your time.

Using quick removal as the default option could lower the life of a pen drive or external drive. 

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How to Change Storage Setting on Windows 10

• Connect the drive to the PC/laptop
• Right-click on Start and select File Explorer
• In File Explorer, find the USB drive/external drive
• Right-click Start, and then select Disk Management
• Right-click on label of the device, and then click Properties
• Over there, select Policies, and change setting

Windows 10 is a popular Microsoft operating system, which has made some useful changes, and added features people have been asking for. For instance, automatically pausing updates if there’s an issue, is a positive move, one that the users are bound to appreciate. It has been one of Microsoft’s more stable operating systems.