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Absolutely right, I can't imagine that it's something that I would ever actually want to use! I was just a bit puzzled as to what uBlock had to do with it. Is it something that uBlock would block as a matter of course, regardless of its settings?

Yup, already said that when I posted. This is Microsoft's requirement and should only apply to new installs not upgrades over existing installs based on my testing.

Second post on this page (page 2). Whether this is SP1, RTM, SP2, or whatever is unknown on my end. All I can tell you is that ALL of our factory machines that run Win7 or higher had this "feature" where if our maintenance crew unplugged a USB camera "thinking" that they knew what they were doing, our entire assembly line went down! It's also a corporate environment that the updates are performed by Singapore IT, no matter what country the factory floor sits in, it is Singapore IT that controls the updates. Updates were "rolled" in a very systematic process. Updates are technically "tested" by NOT rolling them out to the entire factory floor "all at once". This Win7 "feature" is an issue REGARDLESS of what rollout phase our updates are at. And yeah, just as our maintenance crew might "think" they know what they are doing, I will say the same for our Singapore IT department! Point is, ALL of our Win7 machines do NOT power off the USB port when the device plugged into that port is "removed".

Chrome 109 from 2022 might be too old. Works fine for me on 119.

Link?

But not a word about Vista, nor Win 10/11.

In Vista eSata can also be powered down.

Is this triple posting glitch back again?

The article is obviously old, it was a glitch in SP1, in RTM and SP2 - they do.

3.7.9 works fine on 24H2 IOT Ent LTSC 26100 with the 26100.2 cumulative update. Early adopters of .9 should remember that the SAB task bar is turned off at install. Just go to Program Files/StartAllBack and run StartAllBackCfg.exe manually to turn it on. Jim

SOLVED It's a strange hard drive alignment problem. I have verified that the partition is active with WinPE. From this all the data on the hard drive is perfectly accessible. However, I have booted a CD with MiniTool Partition Wizard Home 8.1.1 and I see that it does not indicate any active partitions. When I click on the "Boot Active partition" option, MiniTool tells me that it could not find the Windows installation. It's weird, with the Windows installation CD I can log into repair mode. Then I clicked on MiniTool on the align partitions option. Now the partition has been aligned to LBA 2048. I don't remember how much this one was aligned to before, surely 63. When I rebooted the error persisted, but I clicked in the BIOS on the "IDE HDD Auto Detection" option and then Windows XP began to boot. It is a strange problem, also with the BIOS update the hard drives have a hard time being detected, when I restart these make noises trying to boot for several seconds, with the BIOS old version it does not happen. There is no problem if I start the computer directly, the problem is when resetting. In any case, updating the BIOS has not solved the problem I was trying to solve. ACPI does not work for me on Windows XP. The HAL installed is Standard PC and if I install the HAL with ACPI when XP starts up it gives me a blue screen. Updating the BIOS did not solve it.

True. You fix those with an USB cable and typing strange commands in console. Strange things are always encountered when deviating from official or just being on too old. I deleted Android Auto as it seems to be a dead end on an old phone. Maybe not if you're hacking wizard. Maybe I should buy an iPhone next time? Noticed on APKMirror Google's apps' version histories are absolutely insane. I'd say both email and smartphone already form a master key these days.

Win7 required a registry hack to power down the USB port when the device connected to that port was "removed" via built-in removal. Google it, hundreds of articles on it. Here is but one of them -- https://winaero.com/fix-usb-device-remains-active-after-you-safely-eject-it-in-windows-7-or-windows-8/ Here is another -- https://www.groovypost.com/howto/windows-safely-remove-usb-devices-power-off/

I do not, nor ever have, used any "preload" functions. It's just a fancy way of saying "We are spying on you and trying to predict your next click, we will load our prediction in the background so that when you do make that click, we have half that page already loaded." Think about it, that means that if the "algorithm" made a WRONG PREDICTION, then the algorithm made a connection to a web site that you yourself never actually visited.

Yes, you are most probably right. I recall this being a newer feature. Good thing we have two excellent extensions (that I know of) to deal with this: CleanLinks2 and Pure URL

There isn't anything they can do I think, old uBO simply doesn't have the function for removing parameters from URLs.

I don't recall Windows 7 not powering down USB device on eject. Maybe it was some strange chipset driver?

What browser and version are you using? I have tried Chrome 109 and Fifrefox 110.10.0 ESR. I hit refresh the page and the written text disappears.

Looking at the Thorium performance settings, I was intrigued by this - Switching u-Block off for just that page makes no difference, but if uBlock is disabled completely, the option becomes available again. This is the same in Supermium BTW.

That's weird... I thought 8.0 (6.2) supported eMMC's out of box?

So, try to exit "USB Safely Remove", block it from running, reboot and try to eject the HDD.

Oh! It's becoming more and more interesting. So, you suggested us something you never used yourself! How then do you know they are "secure"?

I did. I went from XP to 10. But still use ALL of my XP programs. No new programs other than now I use Ungoogled Chromium v114 as my web browser. Re: desktop shortcut -- https://superuser.com/questions/443162/remove-usb-device-from-command-line