Microsoft recently confirmed the bug on a new support page, which explains that this happens on unmanaged systems or PCs that use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).

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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.

Encryption is an added level of security for you PC. Here are the pros and cons of Microsoft’s built-in encryption tool BitLocker.

Various versions of Windows include the option to use BitLocker, which is Microsoft’s built-in encryption tool. Here are pros and cons.

Microsoft has added new BitLocker encryption guides on its official website. These are meant to explain to users what BitLocker does and how to recover and/or back up the necessary BitLocker keys.

If want to disable automatic BitLocker Device Encryption during installation on Windows 11, follow the instructions mentioned in this post.

A new ransomware strain called ShrinkLocker creates a new boot partition to encrypt corporate systems using Windows BitLocker.

If Microsoft had been planning to implement BitLocker more widely, that could explain the strict requirement for Windows 11 machines to have a TPM.

TPM sniffing attacks, which we have covered before, are possible even on modern Intel-powered hardware running the latest Windows 11. Such attacks may however be preventable by Microsoft's Pluton.