No Apparent Life

[Laplandz]

I've had similar issues when the CMOS battery is knackered, have you checked voltage on it?

 

[nlinecomputers]

I have never, and I do mean never, seen BitLocker enabled by default regardless of the account type being used. And I actively discourage my clients from doing drive encryption unless they really, really need it (which is almost no one).

The craze for encrypting anything and everything, with no concern for the difficulties it often ends up causing the end user, needs to be as strongly discouraged as is possible.

Windows 10 with the proper hardware on default will enable BitLocker.

 

[Mike McCall]

This, and apparently some other newer laptops don't have CMOS batteries and use the main battery instead. First time I'd seen it.

 

[Mick]

This, and apparently some other newer laptops don't have CMOS batteries and use the main battery instead. First time I'd seen it.

That just seems plain stupid. So, when the main battery packs up, you can't even run it on mains power cos it won't do any of the stuff the CMOS battery would normally do when a device is turned on?