"Safe to remove" pop-up does not appear.

After searching for days and trying all the reg-edit settings, the "run" commands, and anything else I could find to try, I finally figured it out. In Settings:System:Notifications and Actions, The "Get notifications from apps and other senders" button was off.

Turned it on and my pop-up was back!

spikie6 said:

I think I found the place to solve this.

- In the search bar next to the Start icon, type in "focus assist"
- Click on "Focus assist"
- Click on the "Off" button

That did it for me.

>>>>It did for me too, but I want to use both and cannot. Does anyone know how to use safety remove with focus assist on too so I can maximize the OS?

Hi. I have always had Notification button turned On and Focus Assist turned off. It made no difference. However, the problem has not happened for a long time now. I am currently on version 21H2 Build 19044.1387 and the problem doesn't even happen after a reboot now which always showed the issue when ejecting an external hard drive. Maybe MS fixed the issue at one point but I wouldn't count on it.

I hope soon I can use both focus assist and safety remove many people don’t bother with safety remover to me it’s important I Will work with the features and hope between Microsoft and do diligence everything will work well

maranna said:

I hope soon I can use both focus assist and safety remove many people don’t bother with safety remover to me it’s important I Will work with the features and hope between Microsoft and do diligence everything will work well

It is safe to eject hardware without the prompt as the default policy is set to Quick removal (default). See this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-storage-media

Mcd73165 said:

It is safe to eject hardware without the prompt as the default policy is set to Quick removal (default). See this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-storage-media

>>I would choose better performance and thank you for the link.

This feature it's a disaster......... for me it's completely random..........

From about two days........ now NO NOTIFICATION it's appears and i continue to see the icon on system tray.
Microsoft OMG............

I remember that I have read somewhere that that option actually does not prevent anything from damaging the data. Can't find the exact source where it was written but you should definitely not worry about that. I never faced a problem by removing the USB directly without turning the option on.