Click on Start, search cmd, and click on Run as Administrator. This will open an elevated Command Prompt, here; run this command: manage-bde -protectors -get C: All the Bitlocker recovery keys stored ...

I'm a Windows 98/2000/XP veteran making the jump to Ubuntu and Windows 7. One of the feature in Windows 7 that I thought I'd like to try out was BitLocker. I have no TPM hardware nor the desire to ...

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I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released the KB5041585 cumulative update for Windows 11 that brought some important changes. Unlike the KB5041580 patch for Windows 10, which basically only fixes problems, this ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. If you’re running Windows 11 Pro, you could be costing your SSD almost 50 percent of its ...