Important: Microsoft Support doesn't have the ability to retrieve, provide, or recreate a lost BitLocker recovery key. A BitLocker recovery key is needed when BitLocker can’t automatically unlock an encrypted drive in Windows. This is a 48‑digit number that lets you regain access to your drive.

Find out how to create a Looking for Group so you can find people for multiplayer games, sharing, or chatting.

Learn how to open a shared mailbox in Outlook. Shared mailboxes let a group of users view and send email, and share a calender, and open a contact list from a common mailbox.

Support for Windows 10, Office 2016 and Office 2019 has ended on October 14, 2025. Learn more about your options for Windows 10 or for Office.

Numbers marked as Toll are accessible for both local and long-distance calls. Select a region below to find a customer service phone number in your country/territory. Last updated: February 9, 2026. This page provides support links for home users and support phone numbers for business users.

To change your region, use one of the following options: Need more help? Contact Support. For technical support, go to Contact Microsoft Support, enter your problem and select Get Help. If you still need help, select Contact Support to be routed to the best support option.

This example uses the Loc function to return the current read/write position within an open file. This example assumes that TESTFILE is a text file with a few lines of sample data. ' Open file just created. ' Loop until end of file. ' Read character into variable. MyLine = MyLine & Input(1, #1) . ' Get current position within file.

Once you've verified your email address, go back and open the message.html file that you started with. You can now use your Microsoft account to sign in and view the encrypted message. Last updated 2014-9-15.

To apply this update, you must have SQL Server 2022 or any SQL Server 2022 GDR release through this SQL Server 2022 GDR installed. The English version of this package has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following worksheet. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Learn about the different reset options in Windows and how to reset your device.