Vista - Remove annoying scan and fix

Since XP, we don't have to "safely remove hardware" to take out a USB memory stick, write-behind caching is sensibly disabled for removable devices. But Vista is very annoyingly telling me off every time I put the stick back in. How do I turn this awful message off?

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On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:19:17 -0000, Gordon <gordonbparker@xxxxxx> wrote:
I don't want to use it though! It's not necessary! Only Windows 2000 and earlier were stupid enough to delay writes to a USB stick so you didn't know if it had finished or not. XP and Vista leave the "copying" dialog etc on the screen until it's finished. Plus there is the flashing LED on the stick itself. And if you're only reading from the stick....

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Hi, Peter.

See if this helps...

In Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc), right-click on the disk (in the left
column of the Graphical View) and choose Properties. On the Policies tab,
make sure to set it to Optimize for Quick removal (no cache), rather than
for Better Performance. Quick removal is the default, but it may have been
changed somehow.

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:31:41 -0000, R. C. White <rc@xxxxxx> wrote:
Is that setting saved to the USB stick, or is it in the machine's registry? If it's in the registry, will it then apply to any stick with that drive letter? I use a lot of different sticks.

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