Now in the 'General' tab, under 'Startup type', click on the down arrow and a drop-down menu appears. Click on 'BitLocker Drive Encryption Service'Ī pop-up window opens up. If you’re an advanced user, you can turn off BitLocker by using Bitlocker service, this is rather simple method to disable your bitlocker functions without login data. Keep in mind that disabling the service would prevent users from using this functionality. The BitLocker drive encryption service is used to allow BitLocker to communicate with users and unlock encrypted volumes automatically, all recovery information will be stored in Bitlocker service. Part 3: How to Turn off BitLocker through BitLocker Service This will turn off the BitLocker encryption for the drives. Here click on the radio button 'Disable' and then click 'OK'. Then click 'Fixed Data Drives'įinally, select 'Deny write access to fixed drives not protected by BitLocker' and double click to open it.Ī pop-up appears like shown below. Under that you will get an option 'BitLocker Drive Encryption', click on it. It will Expand subdirectory in the left, then from the options, click on 'Administrative Templates', then click on 'Windows Components' Click on Local Computer Policy on the left tab and select Computer Configuration. Select it.Ī new window called Local Croup Policy Editor opens up. To do this, you just need to follow these simple steps: Go to your desktop and on your search bar, type 'Group' and the first option appears will be 'Edit Group '. If the part 1 is not a viable option or won’t work for you, switch the Group Policy utility to help you disable bitlocker in Windows 10. Part 2: Disable BitLocker in Windows 10 through Group Policy Again press 'Turn Off BitLocker'Īgainst E: the BitLocker status will now appear as 'E: BitLocker Decrypting' which implies that BitLocker has been turned off. For instance, here 'E:' drive has it enabled, now to turn off the BitLocker for the drives, click on 'Turn off BitLocker'Ī pop-up opens up to confirm the same.

For drives which have BitLocker enabled, it will appear as 'Drive Name: BitLocker Encrypting' and for those that already has BitLocker turned off, will have its name as 'Drive Name: BitLocker Off'. The BitLocker window opens up where you can see all the drives which have BitLocker enabled/disabled. Click open the Manage BitLocker setting which appears as the first option with an icon as shown in the screenshot below. Go to your desktop and on your search bar type 'Manage BitLocker'. Part 1: Turn off BitLocker through Manage BitLocker Part 3: How to Turn off BitLocker using BitLocker Service.Part 2: How to Disable BitLocker in Windows 10 through Group Policy.Part 1: How to Turn off Bitlocker Drive Encryption Windows 10.

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