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  1. Cannot Safely Eject Thumb Drive With Task Manager Open

    Ever since I got a unit with Windows 11, I noticed a problem with safely ejecting a USB thumb drive when Task Manager is open. It gives the error "Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device" (see attached pic). Every time I use the safely eject icon in the system tray when Task Manager is open, it...
  2. Solved Microsoft Edge either does not sleep tabs or does not fade tabs, and how to reduce memory usage

    Tks for your info. I was able to see tab sleep better after I changed the timeout to 30 sec. So far, my system hasn't bothered me with slowdowns yet. I usually run Edge with 3-6 tabs open. It's only when I'm doing research that I have up to 20 tabs open. Even then I don't see much of a slowdown...
  3. Solved Microsoft Edge either does not sleep tabs or does not fade tabs, and how to reduce memory usage

    I suspect that tabs are not sleeping, although when I click on a tab that has been dormant (not accessed) for 5 minutes or more, the first 1/4 second the page is blank, then apparently finishes loading from cache. If that's a symptom of a sleeping tab, I can't see any of the tabs are faded. If I...
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