How To: Fix the issue of Windows sticking the same USB Flash Drive name to any USB connected

Ever plug in a flash drive and watch an old name crawl back from the grave? You format it, rename it, swear at it… and Windows still insists the drive is called something from a previous flash drive connection like TEST or better yet something like CentOS 7 Boot. The stick isn’t haunted. Windows is just clinging to a stale label it cached ages ago.

The EU Finally Reins In Computer Cable Chaos, Forcing a Universal USB-C Standard Across All Devices

It only took the tech world about 45 years to agree on one cable. The European Union is finally doing something that makes sense: they’re mandating USB-C on all power bricks by 2028. That means phones, tablets, laptops, and just about anything else that charges through a wall plug will need to play nice with USB-C.

This rule doesn’t just cover devices — it applies to chargers themselves. Each power brick must have a detachable USB-C connector and a way to identify its power rating, so consumers can tell at a glance whether a cable can handle a coffee-mug heater or a laptop. The EU says it’s about reducing e-waste, but honestly, it’s also about saving us from that drawer full of mystery cords that look like a nest of black snakes.

According to EU Directive 2022/2380, this move could help reduce charger waste and improve consumer clarity across the board. By 2030, regulators estimate significant power savings — and maybe, just maybe, a few less headaches for the rest of us.

How USB took over everything—from the clunky one-way Type-A to today’s reversible USB-C—told from our bar-stool friend after a couple drinks.

You ever notice how USB just kind of became the thing that runs everything in your life? One day we’re plugging in beige printers with cables thick enough to tow a car, and the next we’re charging laptops, phones, and toothbrushes off the same port. It’s wild. But it didn’t just happen — it’s been nearly three decades of engineers fighting physics, cost, and human frustration to make that little rectangle (and now that little oval) work right.

Let’s wind it back.

Back When Ports Were Chaos

The year’s 1995. Intel’s running the show, Microsoft’s figuring out Windows 95, and everyone’s losing their minds trying to make peripherals work. You’ve got serial ports for modems, PS/2 ports for mice, parallel for printers, and if you were really in the weeds, SCSI chains that looked like spaghetti wiring a photocopier to a toaster.

So Intel gets this idea — well, really Ajay Bhatt does — to make a single port that does it all. Universal Serial Bus. They bring in Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, DEC, NEC — basically every big nerd from the ’90s — and start hammering out a spec that could work for everything. Plug and play, power and data, and no dip-switches or IRQs.

And they did it. USB 1.0 dropped in 1996, 12 megabits per second, and it worked. Not fast, not fancy — but simple. Then, two years later, Apple launches the iMac G3 — translucent blue, looks like candy — and kills off all their legacy ports. Just two USB ports. Boom. Overnight, the world moves to USB because, well, if Apple did it, everyone else had to catch up.

That’s the funny part — Intel made it, Apple made it matter.

When Apple Went Off Script

Fast-forward a decade and Apple, being Apple, decides to go rogue. USB 2.0 was topping out at 480 megabits per second, which felt like dial-up in a broadband world. So Intel and Apple teamed up again and built Thunderbolt.