In certain admittedly niche scenarios, there could be a danger to your data on Windows 11 24H2 devices where encryption is automatically applied ...

Microsoft is making BitLocker device encryption a default feature in its next major update to Windows 11. If you clean install the 24H2 version that’s rolling out in the coming months ...

Officially, this also applies to Windows 11; Microsoft even lists BitLocker device encryption first in its Home vs. Pro comparison. So what’s this all about? If you type the term “BitLocker ...

BitLocker and Device Encryption are critical tools for protecting a PC’s data from thieves. Here’s everything you need to know about the encryption technologies built into Windows 10 and 11.

Microsoft automatically encrypts your new Windows device and stores the Windows 11/10 Device Encryption Key on OneDrive, when you sign in using your Microsoft Account. This post talks of why ...

All PCs that were designed for Windows 10 or Windows 11 support strong data encryption. On devices running any edition of Windows 10 or Windows 11, you can use a feature called device encryption ...

Let’s cover those all-important caveats first, though, the main one being that to be affected, your PC must be running an ...

Instead of the standard BitLocker encryption, Windows 10 Home offers standard Device Encryption, which can be enabled with a single click in Settings. BitLocker also integrates with TPM (Trusted ...

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 ...

To fix the “Cannot install Windows, BitLocker Drive Encryption is enabled on selected partition” error, suspend BitLocker via Settings or Control Panel, or use your recovery key to unlock the ...

What Microsoft did was make it so that when you first set up a new PC that has Windows 11 Home using a Microsoft account, Device Encryption is turned on by default (for the system drive only ...