How Windows 8 Professional and Enterprise users should encrypt their external drives—for free. ... Using BitLocker to Go in Windows 8. ... or turn off BitLocker entirely, ...

To disable hardware-based encryption on operating system drives for BitLocker in Windows 11/10 using Group Policy Editor, follow these steps: Search for group policy in the Taskbar search box ...

To turn off BitLocker encryption on Windows 11, Open the Settings app using the Start menu or Win+I keyboard shortcut. Select System on the left side menu.

Microsoft responds with advice for Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise users to turn it off and on again. Researchers reverse engineer a bunch of self-encrypting solid state drives to reveal multiple ...