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"Fortunately, there are many ways to prevent such banners from infecting your computer. One could give Microsoft a taste of its own medicine by disabling TPM to
by rolph 4y ago
"Fortunately, there are many ways to prevent such banners from infecting your computer. One could give Microsoft a taste of its own medicine by disabling TPM to render the computer "incompatible" with Windows 11 (this potentially increases security risks, so proceed only if you are 100% sure turning off TPM will not break anything on your system). Also, paying attention and reading what your computer tries to say, regardless of how vague the descriptions are, dramatically reduces the chances of getting unplanned upgrades"
- r00fus 4y ago> this potentially increases security risks, so proceed only if you are 100% sure turning off TPM will not break anything on your system So is there any real risk to disabling so-called "Trusted Platform Module"?
- mschuster91 4y agoYes, if you have Bitlocker with hardware-backed encryption active and you clear out the TPM you will not be able to unlock that disk in the worst case.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoAnd don't make the mistake of thinking, oh, if I don't have Windows 11 Pro, I don't have BitLocker. Windows has been rolling out, on some processors and configurations, a feature called "Device Encryption." Which is basically BitLocker except it is on by default, included in Windows 11 Home, and escrows a copy of your key to your Microsoft Account (which makes the MSA requirement for "more security" make a little more sense)...
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoSo if a users motherboard dies, are they able to recover the data stored on disk?
- piperswe 4y agoYes, they're able to use the copy of the key that was escrowed to their Microsoft account.
- sys42590 4y agoI also remember having some minor hiccups related to network credentials and Windows Hello when I disabled the TPM to prevent any "accidental" W11 upgrade.