In this post, we will show you how to fix the error The Startup options on this PC are configured incorrectly for BitLocker. A user may see this error message when he ...

February 7, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows Vista Ultimate's new drive encryption feature BitLocker supposedly works with a regular USB drive. But ...

I have an NC6400 and I'm trying to enable bitlocker. NC6400s have TPM 1.2 chips. I set up the OS on C: and then shrink the partition by 1500MB and create a newly formatted NTFS drive on E:. I'm doing ...

Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own ...

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Losing your USB flash drive before a big presentation is a terrible way to start a Monday. Losing a drive that also contains valuable personal data or confidential company information will ruin your ...

A new report suggests Microsoft may be enabling BitLocker encryption by default on Windows 11 24H2 PCs. What's interesting is that the report suggests that this may happen on Home editions too. This ...

Microsoft is investigating a bug triggering security alerts on systems with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) processor after enabling BitLocker. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts ...

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Microsoft may be rolling out a new feature as part of the latest Windows 11 update that will boost security but slow down SSD performance. We’re talking about BitLocker, of course, a device encryption ...