4. Save to a Microsoft Account. If you are logged in to your Windows 11 PC using your Microsoft account, BitLocker can save recovery keys to your Microsoft account in the cloud. By choosing the “Save ...

Last month's BitLocker Recovery bug should be a wake-up call for everyone who owns a Windows PC. ... Windows automatically saves a copy of your recovery key to your Microsoft account.

If you haven’t noticed BitLocker on your new computer it may be because, well, you skipped creating a Microsoft account and used a local account. If you did that, BitLocker is not turned on ...

First up, let's check out what gets transferred. Microsoft says that "Your documents, photos, videos, and other files saved across folders or drives" will make it onto your new PC. It will also carry ...

Microsoft says that it will not use the recovery key for any purpose in its privacy policy, but legal coercion, hacking, or even bad actors within the company might undermine that promise.

In this guide, we'll show you the steps to set up BitLocker on your main system hard drive and removable drive to protect your files on Windows 10. ... Save to your Microsoft account. Save to a file.

Microsoft BitLocker is a fine volume encryption tool only marred by unnecessarily complex hardware and software requirements. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or ...

Cooke insists that when Microsoft designed BitLocker for Windows 7, it took into account TPM’s vulnerabilities. The company should have known them as this isn’t the first time TPM was hacked.

When we think about encryption for a Microsoft-based network, what generally first springs to mind is BitLocker, Microsoft’s native fixed-drive encryption software.But that highlights a tendency ...