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BitLocker - to be or not to be?

From	"Alan K." <alan@invalid.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	BitLocker - to be or not to be?
Date	2025-04-30 11:30 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<vutflp$i9ph$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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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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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

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