u/mercurygreen

Working on a PC.

Finally get it into SafeMode.

Try to open settings.

"This service cannot be started in Safe Mode"

Isn't MS trying to kill Control Panel and put everything in Settings?

*sigh*

Reimage AGAIN since I cant roll back the update. U less anyone has an idea...

So this is a weird one:

My ancient Surface3 that I bought the day Win10 came out just BitLockered itself.

I'm I.T. and was on vacation last week, so there wasn't anything on it - just some recently downloaded files. I don't BitLocker my personal computers, just the business ones.

In spite of me fully patching it before I left, and it being on Win10 on the extended "No really - this is the end!" lifecycle, it decided there was another patch last week while I was on hotel wifi. (Yeah, a bit suspect.)

I went through all my Microsoft accounts, and none of them have an encryption key saved. Additionally, since I named them all uniquely, I noticed the computer renamed itself to a default generic name.

I'm mostly upset because I'm going to have to "do something" with it; it's just... weird. Is anyone actually working on figuring out what's doing this? As I said, I work in I.T. and I've had a few people bring their computer in where it's suddenly asked for the decryption key when BitLocker should NEVER have been on.

EDIT - SOLVED:
Being in I.T. I have a *lot* of accounts. I thought I only had three personal accounts with Microsoft; apparently, I have a fourth I had forgotten about a different one!

aka.ms/myrecoverykey was the correct answer, but with an account from 11+ years ago. (Safety tip - make sure all your recovery emails are up to date and accessible!)

So I missed when the fourth Girl Genius novel came out, and I'm reading it now.

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There's a LOT of details in there that I'd been wondering about, like people's names, some backstories and hints for things that we haven't gotten to yet in the comics!.

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