Windows 11 Windows 10. If your system is asking you for your BitLocker recovery key, the following information may help you locate your recovery key and understand why you're being asked to provide it. Important: Microsoft support is unable to provide, or recreate, a lost BitLocker recovery key.

Method 1: When the Error Message States the Computer Is Locked by domain \ username. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to unlock the computer. Type the logon information for the last logged on user, and then click OK. When the Unlock Computer dialog box disappears, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and log on normally.

The file might be locked because: The file is shared and another user is currently editing it. An instance of the Office app is running in the background with the file already opened. The file has been marked as Final and can no longer be updated. In some situations, you can use your mobile device to unlock the file and continue editing it.

In the search box on the taskbar, type file explorer, and then select it from the list of results. Right-click the file you want to zip, and then select Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder . To decompress files. Open File Explorer and find the compressed folder. To unzip the entire folder, right-click to select Extract All, and then follow the ...

Summary. Cipher.exe is a command-line tool (included with Windows 2000) that you can use to manage encrypted data by using the Encrypting File System (EFS). As of June 2001, Microsoft has developed an improved version of the Cipher.exe tool that provides the ability to permanently overwrite (or "wipe") all of the deleted data on a hard disk.

Windows 11 Windows 10. If you use a local account in Window 11, you should create a password reset disk using a USB flash drive as soon as possible. Then, if you forget your password, you can reset it. If you wait until you've forgotten your password, it'll be too late.

Customers may continue to access these features within the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant until the migration is complete. The Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant works by running tests to figure out what's wrong and offers the best solution for the identified problem. It can currently fix Office, Microsoft 365, or Outlook problems.

Follow these steps to reset your Microsoft account password. If you know the email address that you used to set up your Microsoft account (which is used to sign in to your Xbox profile), you can reset your password now: Go to Reset your password and enter your email address.

Open the document and enter its password. Go to File > Info > Protect Document > Encrypt with Password. Clear the password in the Password box, and then click OK. Easily remove a password you set on your document.

This article provides some options that you can use to reset or recover your password if you forget it. Be aware that, if these options don’t work, Microsoft support engineers can't help you retrieve or circumvent a lost or forgotten password. Windows 11 Windows 10.