Don't pull out the USB flash drive ! (and other Windows Myths that people still believe are true!)
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2023
- There are 4 common Windows Myths that we still believe today.
It's time to let them go and move on
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Good stuff Liron! As someone also in the Tech industry, I'm my family/friends IT guy....and everytime I hear these things "Oh you can't pull that drive" or "I need more memory"....well maybe, NOT. Haha. Except for maybe my sister....she likes to click ok on things before reading them....and her antivirus software earns it's money everyday! haha.
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I have to disagree in part about the antivirus myth. There are several antivirus programs that behave well, but there are some that are absolutely system killers.
of course. If you pick a no-name-brand one that is free and harvests your data its not going to behave like one from a reputable company who spend millions into making sure it doesn't intefere with your system.
@@LironSegev So true, I 100% agree. When it comes to Anti-Virus or more common now is Internet Security to be very sure always get a well-known paid! package.
@@JasonWestaway Largely agree, but I would say (for example) that Kaspersky's free AV is better that many "well-known" competitors' paid packages.
The worst anti virus (from personal usage ) is McAfee and Protegent360(protegent360 has orange super why as the mascot☠️)
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Appreicate you being here - and same to you and yours!
I have been working in IT for a long time (20 years)and have a guy (A+ Certified) that still tells the "You will damage the USB by pulling it out without ejecting it". Nice video as usual my friend!!
Thank you Liron. As always amazing video, keep doing what you best.
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Happy Christmas Liron. Thankyou for your video's.
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Thanks, Liron, for your amazing channel. Yes, there are a lot of Windows Myths out there.
The one that really stood out for me for the Defrag. A lot of people are still defragging SSD's I'd told a friend you don't have to defrag an SSD as there are no moving parts (As you said in your video) He did not believe me, so I shared this video with him.
Now he believes it.. lol oh well Thanks again.
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Happy to help and happy holidays to you. More to come 🔥
Defragging SSD only make sense in one case, that is when you sure that you will not be modifying the content of the SSD afterward, but even then the benefit are too small to be humanly noticeable.
What are that hardly noticeable benefit? the OS will issue less commands to the SSD in order to read files that are defragmented compared to more multiple commands queue for the same files but more fragmented.
I wonder what's been making my sd card corrupt every so often when I remove it from my computer
Thank goodness your the host of the new mythbuster's.👍😎 Congratulations on a million subs!🎆🎉🍻 and may you have a million more!👍✌
The thing about antivirus slowing down a computer might be coming from those ones who tried a "security suite" like Norton or something similar. I remember having tried one of those way back in the early 2000s and back then CPUs were mostly single core still. Also they really did slow down computers a lot since they were not only single core but didn't have a ton of RAM like they could these days. I still don't run those extra security suites these days. I just have a bad impression of them and don't recommend them at all. Antivirus can still slow down a computer if you get one that is poorly written.
Years ago - 20 years, say - it WAS possible to corrupt your flash drive that way - I was present at one of those times. I STILL use EJECT before yanking the flash drive.
Thanks for the great info!
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Well but if the safe USB removal is not needed so why is that function still there in Windows? Sometimes it even says "Hardware still in use" until you close the File Explorer 😁
On Linux it is in the event you remove while it is writing meta data to the file system and I assume it is the same for Windows, for example it gets into a state where what the filesystem says is different from what is actually on the device though this can easily be fixed by demounting the filesystem and repairing it.
Similarly, for several years I had occasional problems where LibreOffice refused to let go of a file. Had to shut down the PC at least a few times to get LO to release. Since there's been no recent events I wonder if they solved it. Other software has had this glitch as well, but it was many years back. However, glitches like this should only mess with the associated file(s), not the thumb drive (?). Not ready to test hot removal after an LO session yet, but considering it.
Leave a home computer running all night, I don't think is safe for security or energy consumption. You channel is amazing. Strength forward to the point and clear, congratulations 👏
Another great vid.
We have to get you to 1 mil subs.
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I can never understand or get USB sticks to work, Thanks for the video my friend, your channel is awesome 😊
hmmm if its the same USB stick, it may be faulty. If its the same computer, the port may be the issue. Try the same USB stick in someone elses computer and see if it works.
@@LironSegevI have had a USB stick work in my PC but my mother's PC did not recognize it as being plugged in. But another USB stick would work in my mother's port. 🤷♀️
Nice, Windows 10 Pro keeps telling my USB is being used when It's been Idle for hours. Just gonna yank it now. 👍
I've had to delete my antivirus on one of my laptops as it slows it down too much and takes too much space. It only has a 256Mb HDD and not connected to the internet anymore. Being a Campaq P1 running XP I'm amazed it's still going. The thing keeps chugging along. Doubt their are many still being used today.
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The only time that I ever consciously used the Remove Safely option then removed the USB stick, the stick died. Go figure.
SSDs and multicore processors have changed a lot. I remember what it was like in the old days doing a virus scan with a single core on an HDD. Slow is an understatement. 😂
100%
Not sure if it's a Mytho on the Mac side or accurate, but if you don't eject a drive before pulling it out, the OS will bitch at you by popping up a message with a red exclamation saying something along the lines of "The disk was not ejected properly."
Sorry but no idea - I don't do any Mac stuff
As an old techie, I am appalled at how many "experts" tell you to not bother with running an antivirus/malware protection. Thanks for dispelling this myth.
I hear you - And Windows Defender has come from useless to being really good and yet they tell people to turn that off too!!! its ridiculous.
For myth #1, I notice on my SanDisk Cruzer thumb drive after I have finished copying a large file to it, the windows explorer copy popup completes, but the light still flashes for like 15 seconds after. And I am one of those people that click safely remove, and it wont let me do it during this time, saying that the device is busy. Also just want to confirm that this applies only to USB flash drives and maybe USB SSDs, right? Not USB HDDs.
It also happens to me. So ... I'm not convinced yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thx 4 the post, i have a friend who insists pulling a USB will screw up your pc, now i have you on video to finnaly tell him the truth, merry christmas 🎅
gald to help settle that "argument" 😜 - and merry christmas to you!
Hi, other than USB, does external Hard Disk apply the same thing as flash drive for the yanking it out
WINDOWS 95 is still being used... Back in 2019, while on a cruise, I took a tour of the ship. While in the engine control room I noticed a "update failed" message on the display. Turns out they still use Windows 95 to control the engines. The ship was built in 1995 an apparently still using the operating system.
oh my!!! I saw that some ATM are still running Windows XP so I guess this stuff is still out there....scary
@@LironSegev In manufacturing, depending on when a system was developed. They are still using the original software which is Windows 95 because to upgrade would be too costly. I came across systems from two different manufacturing industries with Windows 95 being used and the systems still work with minor exceptions.
I wonder what about security?
@@LironSegev The last one was a laser welding system and it was offline and updates to the program were by USB. The first one was in 2015 and was on the company's network. But, I was a technician and not working in IT for that company at the time. So, unfortunately, I don't recall the full situation.
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What about the "Trim" function on an SSD which I thought was equivalent to "defrag". Okay to use or not ?
windows 10/11 uses trim automatically don't worry about that HDD has read/write head so if the bits of a files are split up(fragmented) it made accessing them slow but not for ssd coz ssd's have no moving parts
Good news! I can just pull my USB out. Watching from the Philippines.
I have a problem with copying and/or moving documents from my hard drive to my external hard drive. When copying or moving documents (i.e.: 50 documents) only 10 was transferred the others documents are supposed to be corrupted and/or unreadable. I always eject my external drives. Can you assist with a possible answer. Please & Thank you.
How about whether to turn off a pc or leave it running 24/7 makes it last longer?
What about the myth Windows built-in antivirus is the worst one? I've been using it since Windows 10 maybe and I haven't had any issues with it, I actually have a feeling Windows antivirus is the best among all antiviruses since it's not 3rd party
Say goodbye to your photos from that camera's SD card you stuck in there to copy quicker.
Never had that happen even once. What kind of low quality SD cards are you using?
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
My usb sticks often get corrupted, not saving, when I do just yank it out, so it has to be something to it? windows 10
if its in the middle of writing to it then it can get corrupt. If its happening often, you might want to reformat the USB stick and try again. If that is still happening often it may be a corrupt USB stick so try another one.
@@LironSegev , formatting the usb, then go into disk management and set that USB to Simple volume then format it again. you might have to use easus free to go to the USB and opt to have it create a MBR for the drive.
@@LironSegev Thank you.
For the first case... Recently i just pull my usb drive off because something wrong with my pc causing very slow.. after doing that my usb drive is now gone case.. there is no way i can get it working again
One another myth:
Older systems are more likely to be hacked because they no more supported by soft dev.
Seems legit, but...
Hackers know, that most people and companies run new systems and they focus on them. They are not interested in old systems, as there is much lower probability to find such a system around.
Wonna example? Here you go..
I have Flipper Zero. It has a great functionality of BadUSB by USB port or Bluetooth. Wonderfull toy.
The point is it DOESN'T work on Windows 7 :) but works wonderfully on Windows 10&11 :)
With Win7 my old laptop is secured :) while newest ones do whatever Flipper (or any BadUSBs) tell them to do :)
how to open pc on via my phone on aorus motherboards?
if you put a thin slice of bread in your DVD rom it will actually toast it.
What about removing an external hard drive?
Not really a myth, but a debate. I remember years ago people debating whether you should leave your computer on all the time, or turn it off at night and turn it on in the morning. I'd love to hear your views on this.
If its an old computer, shutting down is probably a good idea but if its a newer computer, they tend to have great power management and you can set them to go into sleep mode after not being used for x number of minutes. I leave mine on all the time as at night I have my updates happening and my backup going and my computer is connected to the UPS so I am not too worried about power surges. There is nothing wrong with switching off the computer either. So its a personal prefrence.
@@LironSegev i often set my pc to Hibernate, and that is great, but ever so often when i move the mouse to wake it up, it does not load the signin page and get stuck on a blank desktop background picture, so I have to restart the pc to get to the signin screen. any thoughts as to why that is happening?
@@crabbypaddy5549 You just press a key on your keyboard
@@crabbypaddy5549 what, why is your system reacting to mouse on S4, S4 should power off the system completely...
No sense in leaving it running if nothing is going on (scheduled downloads or tasks, remote access, etc). There's the potential of something going wrong when the PC is left unattended, which is mitigated simply by shutting down.
I disagree strongly about the antivirus thing. Yes, Windows Defender, sure. With other ones, there are many that do. LTT did a video on this not that long ago.
My Win 10 computer never recognizes my Android phone. This has been a common issue for all my past Android phones.
Are you using a wired connection?
If so, then make sure it is one that is capable of data transfer.
It will state on the packaging
if you are using a cable be sure that phone settings are not "charge" instead of "transfer"
If you have ever seen what Trellix (formerly McAfee Endpoint Protection) and its THIRTY separate processes do to my work system, you would reconsider the antivirus entry.
I run McAfee on one of my systems. How much ram do you have?
@@LironSegev 16 GB-- it's not the RAM (Teams uses that all up ;) )-- it's the CPU that gets pegged at 100% while it fights with FireEye for whatever available resources my system still has. In order to get any actual work done, I have to use a jumppbox that has Defender for Endpoint/Identity/whatever they are calling it now instead of Trellix.
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does sudden power cut destroys hard drive and ssd?
technically it could but unlikley these days. However, a power SURGE could have an impact on the hardware which is why we always use a UPS to make sure the computer doesn't get fried.
My Windows 10 computer is so slow and always at 100% disk usage. Is fixing this possible?
how much free space do you have on your drive? Here is how you can clean it out and get valuable space back: ua-cam.com/video/U4132uo1oXc/v-deo.html
If it's an hard drive, that's the issue number one.
Number two is your search indexer service, disable asap.
Number three is your page file and swap file. If you don't do super intensive tasks and get to 100% RAM frequently, you don't need either of those, you can also disable them.
Also tip for making a HDD system faster, turn off/on and reboot as less as possible.
Reboot for windows updates, turn back off and on in emergency situations, for everything else, always hybernate your system when you stop using the pc for the day or you leave it for a break.
Resuming your complete session with programs already opened and loaded on your workflow will take like 1-2 minutes from pressing the power button, instead of staring for 5 minutes at your desktop after logging in the user and waiting for the taskbar to appear and become responsive after a reboot ,and then having to reopen all programs (even just firefox with a couple of tabs can take a full minute or two) and resume your work.
Source: was a Win 10 HDD laptop (6th gen i5 U processor) user until last year.
Ahm...I have the choice to configure my USB-devices for quick removal or with cache on...so I would say: It depends on my choice!
everyone has that choice - by default you don't have to change it.
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Myth number 1 is not a myth. Has happened to me several times. It can trash the flash drive requiring re formatting of the flash drive. Am a 30+ year tech.
Another myth is that malware is harder to install on a slow computer.
Is that a thing? WOW
If defragging is not needed why does Windows run it, automatically?
It does it to optimize the way it access the data so there is no need to then manually so it again and again. The system knows what it needs to do so let it.
Should they just remove “Eject”as an option from the USB menu?
probably - but you know how people like to complain when something they never use is taken away....😜
Installing programs/data in C (or any drive having the OS) slows down the pc.......fact or myth?
Myth. From a performance point of view there is nothing wrong with installing everything to the C drive where the OS is. The problem is only when you run out of space on the hard drive and then performance suffers.
From a security point of view, it used to be safer to install the OS on the C drive and everything else on the D drive so if you got hit by a virus it wouldn't take out the data. That is no longer the case as viruses go through all your drives so it doesnt really matter.
Thnx for the info, sir@@LironSegev
I'm on an old pc and the myth is real!!
Is it true that Windows is less safe than Mac OS when it comes to viruses?
Malware writers go after what is used the most and Windows computers are used more than Mac across the globe. So they are more of a target but with the right protection they are not less safe than a Mac (who btw is also getting attacked so they are no longer the untouchables like they used to be)
@@LironSegev Will you be making a video about this?
It's in the list. But I am so not a Mac guy so I have to do a lot of research first
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You sir are absolutely Wrong about the slowdown of your system with antivirus! Avast! Macafee and the list goes on! They take up so much resources and slows down your computer! I take care of a few computers and are constantly slowing down! Only two years ago at the airport we were amazed by the airport using windows 2000 locked up on the home screen with the crash prompt right down the middle. We wondered what they have running the plane, probably why the planes are always delayed, running antivirus! 😂
If you have an old computer and low ram then of course it will slow down your system. If you have any decent computer with enough ram you won't feel it. It's like me saying it's great we can do 60mph and you say wrong! My horse can't do that😆
When he said "game" mode I thought he said 🌈 mode.
I disagree on the antivirus part. First of all, as strange at it is, you can still buy new computers with 4 gb ram. Don't ask me why. Antivirus software are a bad idea even with 8, let alone 4.
Second of all, it depends what you do with your computer. I have 32 gb ram, but when I'm video editing, which uses a lot of ram, I don't need an antivirus slowing my system down, fighting for memory with Adobe or Avid.
Truth be told, if you're moderately tech savvy and know how to stay safe, Windows Defender is enough cause it no longer sucks as it did in the olden days. I haven't used third party antivirus software in years and I'm fine.
Obviously, if you have a PC running an old processor with 4 GB RAM then everything will be slow - not just the anti-virus.
Its like me saying: Its great that we can travel 60 MPH down the freeway, and you say: Disagree, some people ride a horse and buggy so it's not true.
And yes, Defender is great and it has come a long way from being a memory eater to working much better within the Ram.
Just run Linux if you are not a gamer.
Here's a common myth that everybody thinks. The RTX 4090 is the best GPU but if you don't have a high-end cpu well then no! 💪🌈☕
true story!
@@LironSegev nvidia has better graphics cards, your thoughts?
USB corrupted all the time from being in a hurry, Windows install. You are wrong a lot.
so you are saying millions of Dollars in Windows developer code are all wrong and you are right. Ok buddy. Big words are difficult (that means hard)
@@LironSegev Is that what you do? Study big words before the show. I do have to reload OS on USB for removing to soon, often.
Yup Definitely sounds like a you problem.
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