Microsoft's default settings for Windows 11 are filled with tiny annoyances, including unnecessary taskbar icons and unwanted apps. Here's how to declutter your PC and maximize its security.

Microsoft is giving BitLocker in Windows 11 a serious upgrade, and this time the focus is on speed and stronger key protection rather than just “more encryption.” If you have ever worried about ...

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It seems obvious in retrospect, but thanks to the performance gains in modern SSDs, Microsoft has started rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker capabilities in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 will get a major update for BitLocker encryption in 2026. The company says the new “hardware-accelerated BitLocker” will use dedicated hardware to encrypt data ...

Large folders on the system are one of the culprits that "eat" a lot of system space. Many folders that you create, after deleting them, will come back after a while. Maybe those are junk folders that ...

Discover how to safely remove hiberfil.sys in Windows 11 to reclaim gigabytes of disk space. Step-by-step instructions, tips, ...

Remove R CMD check (for now) as it is consuming a lot of time to run. Hopefully all contributors will run them locally before committing. Add it back again at a later time.

Since BitLocker heavily relies on WinRE to handle pre-boot authentication, including the recovery password prompt, if WinRE is disabled, corrupted, or not properly ...

Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. The BitLocker Recovery Error with a Trace ID (e.g., XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX) occurs when Windows detects a potential ...