After installing Windows 11, many users usually start using the system without checking important default settings. While the ...

That means if you clean install Windows 11 later this year or buy a new PC with 24H2 installed, BitLocker device encryption will be enabled by default. If you just upgrade to 24H2, Microsoft won ...

If you’ve signed into a Windows 11 Pro PC with your Microsoft account, BitLocker is on by default. However, even Windows 11 Home PCs can use Windows’ built-in “device encryption.” ...

BitLocker will be enabled by default on all Windows 11 PCs. Once the drive is encrypted with BitLocker, Windows asks where you’d like to back up the encryption key.

This post is intended to help you resolve the issue when BitLocker is missing or not showing in the Control Panel in Windows 11/10. It’s imperative to point out that Device encryption is ...

BitLocker is an on-by-default setting in Windows 11 Pro that is meant to encrypt and protect your data. While that sounds all good and dandy, the setting now appears to rob as much as 45 percent ...

Microsoft’s software encryption for SSDs, BitLocker, has been found to be slowing down SSD performance by up to 45% in Windows 11 Pro. BitLocker is enabled automatically when Windows 11 Pro is ...

Microsoft began pushing BitLocker with the Windows 11 23H2 update, which made BitLocker the default for new installations on supported systems. With 24H2, that setting expands to reinstallations ...

In Windows 11/10 and TPM 2.0 now, the BitLocker PIN length was increased to 6 characters. Also, the TPM 2.0 lockout period is greater than the default when a PIN is changed.

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.