How To Fully Decrypt Drive From BitLocker

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can permanently unlock your BitLocker. BitLocker by Microsoft helps you in encrypting your computer totally. I have told you how you can fully encrypt your computer with BitLocker.

But when you don’t need to encrypt your computer anymore it become difficult to remove encryption because to encrypt we can simply right-click on drive and can select Turn on BitLocker but to remove encryption we can’t do like this.

BitLocker icon

To remove encryption

  1. Click on Start button –> Control Panel
  2. Now click on BitLocker Drive Encryption (if you can’t see from top-right corner change View by from Category to Large/Small icons)
  3. Control Panel -- BitLocker Drive Encryption

  4. Now the which is encrypted beside that you will see option called Turn Off BitLocker, click on it
  5. BitLocker Drive Encryption -- Turn Off BitLocker

  6. Now it will ask you to conform, click on Decrypt Drive
  7. BitLocker Drive Encryption -- Decrypt Drive

And it will start decrypting your drive, it may take some time depending on the size of your drive. If you have any question or problem let me know.

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