Encryption can protect your data from crooks, but if you don't have a recovery key stored securely, it can also keep you out – permanently.
If the password sign-in option is suddenly missing on Windows 11, it's not your fault. Here's what you can do about it.
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Here's how I encrypt my Windows PC without BitLocker
BitLocker is the most common way to encrypt your Windows PC to protect it against data theft in the event that someone steals ...
Standard users are required to enter the current PIN or password for the drive to change the BitLocker PIN or BitLocker password. If a user enters an incorrect ...
The BitLocker encryption method and Cipher strength you set as default is only applied when you turn on BitLocker for a drive. Any changes you make will not affect a drive already encrypted by ...
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Surprise! A Windows BitLocker bug has returned to ruin your reboot — here's how to get around it
In what's becoming all too common of late, there's a new bug affecting Windows 11 (and Windows 10) users. And when I say a "new bug," I mean one that we've seen before a couple of times, which we ...
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