Windows has been slowing down every USB drive you plug in for 8 years, and one setting fixes it

03/10/2026

Most of us use our USB devices the same way. We plug it in, drag some files across, wait for the copying to finish, and pull it out without a second thought.

What most users never notice is that Windows quietly made a change to how it works back in 2018, and this change has been the default on Windows machines ever since. The idea was to make it safer to pull out a USB drive without needing to eject it and reduce the likelihood of losing any data in the process.

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