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It feels like Microsoft is trying to "convince" users to switch to Windows 11 by making Windows 10 bad.
At the same time Win 10 computers without this UEFI cannot be migrated to Win 11...
> a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass BitLocker encryption by using the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) I always wondered why the recovery environment seemed to let me have SYSTEM privileges to my auto-decrypted system drive... Thats been the case for years, and you can use it to dump the contents of a machine you've lost the login password to for example. I guess it wasn't supposed to!
IIRC WinRE asks for a local administrator password before doing any recovery operations, no? Also, this is one of the reasons why "auto unlock" is generally a huge asterisk and PIN/password/network unlock are recommended instead, if possible. (Though they do force you to be a laptop nanny during update times and unlock it on every restart...)
Not for the "Shift+F10" command prompt option....
There is a case to be made to not install all updates as soon as they are available.
Also how the heck does something like this happens ? Did MS forgot the size of the WinRE partion which THEY created ?
> meant to address a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass BitLocker encryption by using the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). How can you screw up so badly that you even have the ability to bypass the entire reason for a security feature existing? Sorry to be mean to Microsoft, I am certain there's usability reasons for this, but sincerely: principle of least surprise please. I'd be incredibly surprised…
You can set it up to auto unlock:
https://devicetests.com/decrypting-luks-encrypted-filesystem...
Is it me or is Microsoft degrading user experience on Windows 10 with constant system breaking updates? It feels that most of them do nothing but slow the system down or change things for the sake of change (some project managers want to show they do something?). It feels like Microsoft is trying to "convince" users to switch to Windows 11 by making Windows 10 bad. At the same time Win 10 computers without this UEFI…
Glad to see that Microsoft is making Windows more and more similar to Linux by every passing day :)
Haha! Yes, this was a mess! I was called to help my concerned stepson with "an update error" this past weekend. I'm a software engineer but even I kind of balked at it at first, realizing how very easily an on-the-fly resizing of partitions can go wrong! Let's take it from the beginning. He pointed me to the "out of disk space" error code, which isn't in text form to begin with, but only something you find out by goo…
Glad to see that Microsoft is making Windows more and more similar to Linux by every passing day :)