Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.
Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you’ve got an unactivated copy, local account, or don’t know your M$ account credentials, your boned.
Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.
BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.
This is gonna happen to a lot more people with their password change.
Why do you have to use there? Nothing a cater. You can’t use Google or open source. I don’t get it. They suck.
Like I need more spyware on my phone.
What about people with landlines? Older people.
So they’re going to lose a huge market share when they force everybody to throw away their computer to run Windows 11.