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BitLocker - to be or not to be?

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  BitLocker - to be or not to be? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-04-30 11:30 -0400
    Re: BitLocker - to be or not to be? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-30 16:42 +0100
      Re: BitLocker - to be or not to be? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-04-30 15:35 -0400
        Re: BitLocker - to be or not to be? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-01 12:13 -0400
          Re: BitLocker - to be or not to be? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-01 17:49 +0100
            Re: BitLocker - to be or not to be? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-05-02 12:05 -0400
        Re: BitLocker - to be or not to be? "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-05-02 01:53 -0400

#18841 — BitLocker - to be or not to be?

History:  I got a new laptop with Windows 11 pro.  I did nothing to thwart changes to it 
except my logical "I don't want 365 or any XBox'.

So it' up and running.  I spent a day tweaking and getting my data files back in place.

Now I try to get Linux Mint to install side by side.  Booting from a usb.
Boy was that ever hard.  Finally I turned off secure boot.   Now I could install Linux. 
And that much worked.

My boot sequence is to boot Linux, then from grub I pick my OS. I usually have 3.

Well great idea, but that causes Bitlocker to was the key on the next windows boot.
Man am I glad I wrote it down.  Whew!!!

So I find that disabling it only stops till the next boot.  My options are limited but try 
to uninstall Bitlocker seem to be my option.

SO, what am I going to mess with here.  Google seem to tell me it's okay (in so many 
words), but 'you never know when Microsoft will re-install it'.

Any ideas?  Somebody must have bought a new PC lately, albeit not trying to do Linux.
-- 
Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.8,  Kernel 6.8.0-58-generic
Thunderbird 128.10.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 138.0
     Alan K.

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#18842

  Alan K. wrote:

> My boot sequence is to boot Linux, then from grub I pick my OS. I 
> usually have 3.
> 
> Well great idea, but that causes Bitlocker to was the key on the next 
> windows boot.
> Man am I glad I wrote it down.  Whew!!!
> 
> So I find that disabling it only stops till the next boot.

You can easily de-bitlocker your C: partition

Settings > Privacy & Security > Device Encryption
turn the slider to "off" and confirm,
then wait for it to churn through the whole partition.

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#18853

On 4/30/25 11:42 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
>   Alan K. wrote:
> 
>> My boot sequence is to boot Linux, then from grub I pick my OS. I usually have 3.
>>
>> Well great idea, but that causes Bitlocker to was the key on the next windows boot.
>> Man am I glad I wrote it down.  Whew!!!
>>
>> So I find that disabling it only stops till the next boot.
> 
> You can easily de-bitlocker your C: partition
> 
> Settings > Privacy & Security > Device Encryption
> turn the slider to "off" and confirm,
> then wait for it to churn through the whole partition.
> 
> 
> 
That turns it off.   Can I delete the program itself?

-- 
Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.8,  Kernel 6.8.0-58-generic
Thunderbird 128.10.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 138.0
     Alan K.

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#18903

On Wed, 4/30/2025 3:35 PM, Alan K. wrote:
> On 4/30/25 11:42 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
>>   Alan K. wrote:
>>
>>> My boot sequence is to boot Linux, then from grub I pick my OS. I usually have 3.
>>>
>>> Well great idea, but that causes Bitlocker to was the key on the next windows boot.
>>> Man am I glad I wrote it down.  Whew!!!
>>>
>>> So I find that disabling it only stops till the next boot.
>>
>> You can easily de-bitlocker your C: partition
>>
>> Settings > Privacy & Security > Device Encryption
>> turn the slider to "off" and confirm,
>> then wait for it to churn through the whole partition.
>>
>>
>>
> That turns it off.   Can I delete the program itself?
> 

Once it is off, it's off.
Mine has always had this status.
So far, no WU or Upgrade has done a thing to it.

PS> manage-bde -status
BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.22621
Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Disk volumes that can be protected with
BitLocker Drive Encryption:
Volume C: [W11HOME]
[OS Volume]

    Size:                 118.73 GB
    BitLocker Version:    None
    Conversion Status:    Fully Decrypted
    Percentage Encrypted: 0.0%
    Encryption Method:    None
    Protection Status:    Protection Off
    Lock Status:          Unlocked
    Identification Field: None
    Key Protectors:       None Found

Volume H: [WIN10AMD]
[Data Volume]

    Size:                 129.00 GB
    BitLocker Version:    None
    Conversion Status:    Fully Decrypted
    Percentage Encrypted: 0.0%
    Encryption Method:    None
    Protection Status:    Protection Off
    Lock Status:          Unlocked
    Identification Field: None
    Automatic Unlock:     Disabled
    Key Protectors:       None Found

Volume S: [SHARED]
[Data Volume]

    Size:                 682.04 GB
    BitLocker Version:    None
    Conversion Status:    Fully Decrypted
    Percentage Encrypted: 0.0%
    Encryption Method:    None
    Protection Status:    Protection Off
    Lock Status:          Unlocked
    Identification Field: None
    Automatic Unlock:     Disabled
    Key Protectors:       None Found

Volume D: [RAMDrive]
[Data Volume]

    Size:                 87.89 GB
    BitLocker Version:    None
    Conversion Status:    Fully Decrypted
    Percentage Encrypted: 0.0%
    Encryption Method:    None
    Protection Status:    Protection Off
    Lock Status:          Unlocked
    Identification Field: None
    Automatic Unlock:     Disabled
    Key Protectors:       None Found

  Paul

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#18905

Paul wrote:

> Alan K. wrote:
>>> That turns it off.   Can I delete the program itself?
> 
> Once it is off, it's off.
I agree, you could cause problems by some hacky method of removing it, 
then likely a monthly fix would reinstall it anyway.

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#18978

On 5/1/25 12:49 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
>> Alan K. wrote:
>>>> That turns it off.   Can I delete the program itself?
>>
>> Once it is off, it's off.
> I agree, you could cause problems by some hacky method of removing it, then likely a 
> monthly fix would reinstall it anyway.
I've turned it off.   No issues and I dual boot very easily.

Thanks for everyone's input.

-- 
Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.8,  Kernel 6.8.0-59-generic
Thunderbird 128.10.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 138.0
     Alan K.

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#18940

Alan K. wrote:
> On 4/30/25 11:42 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
>>   Alan K. wrote:
>>
>>> My boot sequence is to boot Linux, then from grub I pick my OS. I 
>>> usually have 3.
>>>
>>> Well great idea, but that causes Bitlocker to was the key on the next 
>>> windows boot.
>>> Man am I glad I wrote it down.  Whew!!!
>>>
>>> So I find that disabling it only stops till the next boot.
>>
>> You can easily de-bitlocker your C: partition
>>
>> Settings > Privacy & Security > Device Encryption
>> turn the slider to "off" and confirm,
>> then wait for it to churn through the whole partition.
>>
>>
>>
> That turns it off.   Can I delete the program itself?
> 

No.
  Off is Off. That's it.


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