How to Disable Distributed Link Tracking Client
24How to Disable Distributed Link Tracking Client. To disable the "Distributed Link Tracking Client" service, check out this tutorial.
External hard drives and other devices provide a great way of sharing our personal files or creating backups. You might have noticed a safely remove option (bottom right corner) on your icon tray whenever you connect your external drives to the computer. The purpose of this option is to check whether there’s an application accessing your drive’s data or not. If an application still has a handle open to your external drive then Windows will give you a warning before ejecting the drive. All of this is just to make sure that your data is safe. Usually, if you get this message when clicking on the safely remove USB option, you can simply close all the applications and it will allow you to eject your drive safely. However, in some cases, you’ll keep seeing the warning message and Windows will not allow you to eject your external drive. This can be quite problematic since there won’t be anything that you can do in this situation. You can ignore the Windows warning but you’ll have a huge chance of data loss.
This issue is caused by a service named Distributed Link Tracking Client. This service keeps a handle open to the hidden System Volume Information Folder as well as the tracking.log file. Since this service keeps the handle open with your external drive, you won’t be able to safely remove your external drive.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).