Windows 10: Windows 10 scanning USH Flash Drive

Whenever a USB Flash Drive is inserted, Windows 10 wants to scan it for viruses, etc. My experience with this application has been disastrous for the USB Flash Drives.I recently scanned an older 250 MB Sony USB Flash Drive and it became unusable after the Windows 10 scan. It also cannot be formatted anymore. With various formatting applications it is determined as a “bad” drive.I should have known better because I had the same problem with a larger A-DATA USB Flash Drive that became “corrupt” after Windows 10 scanning.Willy

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Windows defender custom scan does not scan external drives

I have Defender Windows 10. I tried using custom scan to select and scan external drives. The screen listing the drives comes up, but the "OK" button remains grayed out so unable to scan any of the drives listed. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows Defender scanning USB flash drive in the background

Hi guys,

Whenever I stick my USB flashdrive in my notebook, for some reason it will not paste my files there. The progress bar just says 0% when copying from my Documents folder and pasting to the USB stick. But sometimes. Especially when I leave the USB stick in for several minutes. And these are not huge files.

My assumption is, that its got to do with Windows Defender taking over the USB contents and scanning it and when its scanning the contents of it, it will prevent writing to the USB flash drive. Now, not saying that this is true, but I do have a strong feeling. And sometimes, it will have a delay to safely remove the USB flash drive as well.

So my question is, is there anything that I can do to prevent this from happening?

The scanning of removable drives is DISABLED or NOT CONFIGURED in Group Policy, so I have not even touched that.

How can I prevent the scanning thats happening automatically in the background without actually disabling Windows Defender?

What I can perhaps do, is adding the USB drive to the Exclusion list.
For example, adding D:\

Or maybe its scanning the Documents folder?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks