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.

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    Unless the “telemetry” has been removed, shouldnt there be “added extra” instead of “renamed”?

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      Telemetry is exclusively for internal data collection and the inevitable sale of it. Recall is also for data collection but provides a user interface to access a slice of that data under the guise of the whole thing being a “feature”.

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        Telemetry isnt always collected to be sold. Open source projects often collect crash data to improve the software

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          Sure, but we’re talking about Microsoft here. When was the last time they actually improved any of their software?

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            They added windows explorer tabs a couple years ago. Does that count?