Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.
Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you’ve got an unactivated copy, local account, or don’t know your M$ account credentials, your boned.
Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.
BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.
Just checked my wife’s laptop. Local account, secure boot off, windows 10. It had a message telling me to setup a microsoft account to ‘finish encrypting the device’. I clicked turn off, and it’s currently decrypting the hard drive. Blech.
I need to check my girl’s laptop.
Good now we know that
Which version of Win 10 are you using? My girl’s Win 10 Pro laptop is still unencrypted.
It’s not which version, it’s where you are. They follow some laws here some there and now that the US is fascist they roll out features like this on these easy targets first
Oh, ok. I am in EU.
They cannot push this to eu, mine is also not encrypted
Windows 10 Home
Shit they do this on windows 10 too? I should check my girl laptop too.