Why accounts are locked and disabled. Microsoft accounts are usually locked if the account holder has violated our Microsoft Services Agreement.Here are some common reasons why accounts are locked, though not all account locks occur for these reasons:

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Is it available on my device? BitLocker encryption is available on supported devices running Windows 10 or 11 Pro, Enterprise, or Education. On supported devices running Windows 10 or newer BitLocker will automatically be turned on the first time you sign into a personal Microsoft account (such as @outlook.com or @hotmail.com) or your work or school account.

If you don’t want to use the proxy server when you visit certain websites, enter the ending of the website address in the exception list (for example, *.contoso.com). For multiple websites, type each website address and separate the addresses with a semicolon (for example: *.contoso.com; *.adatum.com).The * is a wildcard so any website addresses that end with the website address listed will ...

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To control location for just your user account, switch the Let apps access your location setting On or Off.If "Location services is off" appears on the settings page, you won't be able to turn on the Let apps access your location setting for an individual user account.

New or classic Outlook for Windows desktop apps Classic Outlook for Windows is a desktop app included with Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscriptions or non-subscription versions of Office such as Office Home & Business. New Outlook for Windows is available free on Windows devices or as a free download.If you don't already have new Outlook, you can download it from the Microsoft Store ...

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Symptoms. When the operating system is in high-DPI mode, applications that use the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) library of Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 may behave incorrectly.

IMPORTANT This update is not needed and will not be offered if your Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) meets any of the following conditions: If the WinRE recovery partition does not have sufficient free space.