I have several devices - two eReaders, a couple of Garmin navigation units and a couple of cameras - that when connected to Windows show up as two separate drives. In the past I've been able to eject both drives for any of these devices with a single click from the "Safely Remove Hardware" system tray icon. I can still do so on my Windows 7 machine, but the Windows 8.1 machine now requires each of the drives on these devices to be ejected individually. After a bit of experimentation I have found that update 3013172 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3013172) is causing the problem - after uninstalling it, I have the previous behaviour back.
As far as I can see, it's not a security update, so I shouldn't cause any problem by uninstalling it. It seems to me that MS didn't think things through before releasing this update. They should have made the behaviour user-selectable, so that one could choose which way to jump.
As far as I can see, it's not a security update, so I shouldn't cause any problem by uninstalling it. It seems to me that MS didn't think things through before releasing this update. They should have made the behaviour user-selectable, so that one could choose which way to jump.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS
- CPU
- Intel i7
- Motherboard
- P9X79-LE
- Memory
- 32Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVidia GTX 650 Ti Boost
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Microsoft