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, ...

Click Turn off BitLocker to confirm. Your Windows 11 device will now begin to decrypt its hard drive. This process can take a long time, but you’ll still be able to use your computer normally ...

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 ...