First of all - thank you to everyone who is behind and who contributes to this community effort. I have started the journey. Couldn’t have begun it without you. My problem. . . . I have the Windows 11 Home Edition and I am trying to enable Bitlocker per the instructions provided: [Screenshot 20…

Regarding the GUI and modifying this Guide to a GUI-Based one: I’m not sure that all Windows 11 Home editions have the GUI for Bitlocker or even normal device encryption ((I’m on the latest Windows 11 2H22). My device fulfills all requirements mentioned in the guide, I encrypted my C Drive using it…

I don’t wanna sound mean, but shouldn’t fixing the Bitlocker guide be a priority, as Windows is the most used Desktop OS? I mentioned many points that could be looked at and easily fixed (if the person reading knows how to correct them)

[image] Youdontneedtoknow22: I don’t wanna sound mean, but shouldn’t fixing the Bitlocker guide be a priority, as Windows is the most used Desktop OS? I mentioned many points that could be looked at and easily fixed (if the person reading knows how to correct them) The problem is, out of the …

[image] ph00lt0: The problem is, out of the box this just works for new users what do you mean for new users? I have an HP Envy with Intel 8th gen. (which is not really new, but qualifies for Windows 11). The problems I mentioned aren’t really that difficult for the guy who wrote that guide …

It’s probably better to upgrade to enterprise and activate it with massgrave rather than do what is effectively a workaround that may or may not work

It’s probably not better to promote piracy instead of a regular guide just to use a function that’s not supported on a GUI. From their website: “MAS project doesn’t accept donations and it’s free. It’s because it’s a community project and involves many contributors, splitting donations is not prac…

[image] Youdontneedtoknow22: It’s probably not better to promote piracy instead of a regular guide just to use a function that’s not supported on a GUI. You don’t even need to activate it, just get used to the watermark and use MAS if you don’t like it [image] Youdontneedtoknow22: From t…

I get your point, but if one can do something with some power-shell commands, I don’t think he needs to deal with watermarks or piracy. The guide already exists and the research is already done, it just needs to be checked again (which also takes time, but less than doing the guide for the first tim…

Does windows 11 home now provide pre-boot authentication too in addition to usage of tpm through the command line interface. Earlier in windows 10 home bitlocker was present with limited support. Pre-boot auth would be better instead of just relying on TPM.

I understand your point, but I think the lack of ease of use when you could just search for a generic key online is just not worth it. For example, changing your encryption password is probably going to be a pain in the ass. I’m not saying that CLI is itself hard, I really love the CLI workflow. Bu…

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