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Unable to eject USB drives due to Win Defender
Win 10 1909 Build:18363.859
Using Win 'Safe Remove' on my external USB drives no longer works due to an 'in use' failure. I installed "USB Safely Remove" and it displays a "cannot be stopped right now" failure:
Process Name & File name:
System
f:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$Txf:$130:$INDEX_ALLOCATION
MsMpEng.exe
f:
Per a google search "MsMpEng.exe" is a Windows Defender program. I regularly remove/install drives so it's quite an annoyance to go through the process required.
Nothing I can find online has helped eliminate this issue. How do I get Defender to stop "Protecting" my USB drives?
Thanks for any assistance,
Tom