IF THERE’S one warning message likely to get the backs up of the computing community*, it’s likely that one that telling off you get when you pull a USB stick out without asking.
The practice of ‘safely removing’ USB sticks dates back to an era when there was a genuine risk of losing data by failing to warn Windows that you’re about to force an unexpected transfer termination.
However, Microsoft has realised that nobody pays a blind bit of notice to this, and so has decided to change the default settings to reflect this.
