On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:45:15 -0700, "Alex Clayton" <> wrote:
>"Native Terran" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:56:02 -0000, "Peter Hucker" <> wrote:
>>
>>>Since XP, we don't have to "safely remove hardware" to take out a USB
>>>memory stick, write-behind caching is
>>> sensibly disabled for removable devices. But Vista is very annoyingly
>>> telling me off every time I put the
>>> stick back in. How do I turn this awful message off?
>>
>> I have a fresh install of Vista and it has an 'Safely Remove Hardware'
>> icon in the tray. It looks
>> like a USB plug with a green circle with white check mark inside it.
>>
>> Hopefully I've included a smallish image.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>He does not mean that the safely remove is not there, he means we are not
>supposed to have to use it. USB drives are supposed to be able to just be
>removed when you are done harmlessly. With XP you could. For some reason
>Vista has decided to be a pest with this. I use a thumb drive at work all
>the time to move files from my laptop to other computers. Often I am in a
>hurry and just pull it when it's done. About half the time after doing this
>the next time I plug it into the Vista laptop I get the pop up wanting to
>scan and fix. I had tried for a while using the safe remove every time and
>even then often it would give this pop up when plugged into the Vista PC. I
>gave up and now just pull it, and cancel the pop up. It would be nice to be
>able to turn this off, but I just figure it's one of those annoying things
>with this OS.
Ah, yes. After re-reading the original message, I see I was in too much of a hurry to provide what I
knew, to consider if it was what was asked.
You're right, MS over did it with protecting us from ourselves in this case.
--
We live in a society exquisitely dependent
on science and technology,
in which hardly anyone knows anything about
science and technology.
Carl Sagan
|
Similar Threads
Linear Mode
