If you're running Windows, you've probably run into the BitLocker Recovery screen at some point. Here's everything you need to know about the Microsoft program.

Last time I covered an introduction to BitLocker, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and what TPM does to assist in keeping your system secure. This time I'm writing about the most important aspect of ...

Microsoft wants you to use online accounts in Windows 11, yes, but they're not as mandatory as you might think.

Enterprises with many Windows devices might struggle to know which have BitLocker enabled or where to find BitLocker recovery keys. These techniques can help.

Use your mouse to highlight the entire BitLocker recovery key, then press "Ctrl-C" to copy the recovery key to the Windows clipboard. Close the key file and Notepad.

Instead of downloading, installing and configuring special tools, you can access BitLocker recovery keys and passwords from a BitLocker Recovery tab. Ensuring BitLocker keys and passwords are ...

July updates trigger Bitlocker key request As a result, users are faced with a screen that requires them to enter the Bitlocker recovery key from their Microsoft account.

The only way to test that is to turn off the TPM once the drive is encrypted and see which recovery key is accepted, then turn it on again. You should keep both keys on record as a precaution.

I've got about 500 laptops here on BitLocker, having switched from Symantec PGP. It's not labor-intensive at all to escrow the TPM and BitLocker recovery keys in AD as you can make that part ...

If you see This PC doesn't support entering a BitLocker recovery password during startup, enable WinRE, tweak Group Policy, verify TPM, recreate the recovery partition, etc.