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WINDOWS 11 Stop BitLocker encrypting your hard drive Computers that come with Windows 11 Pro include Microsoft’s BitLocker, which automatically encrypts your hard drive. If you don’t want this, you can stop it from happening when setting up a new computer or reinstalling Windows. On the screen that prompts you to choose your country, tap Shift+F10 to open Command Prompt. Now type regedit and press Enter to open the registry editor. Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder, then SYSTEM, followed by CurrentControlSet, then Control and finally BitLocker. Alternatively, type this into the address bar at the top: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Control\BitLocker ( 1 in our screenshot below). Right-click BitLocker 2 and select ‘Dword (32-bit) Value’, which will create an entry in the main panel. Rename this PreventDeviceEncryption 3 . Double-click this to open a…