There are three ways to pass the Bitlocker Recovery screen. The first is to enter a recovery password. This password, anywhere between 8 to 256 characters long, must be set in advance, so you'll ...

To Specify Minimum Length for BitLocker Startup PIN Select the radio button for Enabled , enter a number between 4 to 20 in Minimum characters field for what you want, click OK .

First off, I'm running Windows 8.1 and I don't have a TPM. I know all about going under the local Group Policy and disabling the TPM requirement. That's fine, I understand that aspect of it. Where ...

If you want to prevent standard users from changing your BitLocker drive encryption password/PIN, you can deploy the relevant Enable/Disable GPO setting for this.

How to find your BitLocker recovery key - and save a secure backup copy before it's too late But don't let the tool lock you out of your PC. Written by Ed Bott, Senior Contributing Editor ...