How can I completely uninstall Bitlocker?

pcdude91 said:

Hey there, just came across this post and was wondering if you could tell me how did that work out for you? Did the change "hold", or was it overwritten and Bitlocker re-enabled at subsequent updates? Thanks.

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Annoyingly, my Dell laptop came with device encryption tuned on by default in W10 Pro, and a clean install had the same. Rather than disabling or deleting anything, I just turned it off. It has never got turned back on again, however many subsequent updates it got.

Bree said:

....that is the default for a clean install of Pro. I've seen that on a couple of Dell laptops, and again when I wiped one and did a clean install of W10 Pro with the standard Microsoft install media.

If you don't want it then open a Command Prompt (Admin) and type manage-bde -off then sit back and watch it decrypt everything, that's what I did.

Both Device Encryption and Bitlocker on?? How to turn both off??

Bree said:

Welcome to Ten Forums.

Annoyingly, my Dell laptop came with device encryption tuned on by default in W10 Pro, and a clean install had the same. Rather than disabling or deleting anything, I just turned it off. It has never got turned back on again, however many subsequent updates it got.

Classic example of Occam's Razor principle


"Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to 14th–century friar William of Ockham that says that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one."