Bitlocker: Lock an Unlocked Drive

[tw33k]

This is good and looks like it would work. What does one do tho if the "runas" key is already being used for adding "Take Ownership" to the right-click context menu?
M$ should really update this as not being able to re-lock a drive without re-booting (or re-starting explorer.exe) is ridiculous!

 

[Brink]

Hello Mark,

You can use the Take Ownership context menu used in the tutorial below instead. It does not use the "Run As" key.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html


You might also see if this may be able to help you to suspend (unlock) and resume (lock) Bitlocker protection at will. See related links as well.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...uspend-resume-protection-windows-7-drive.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[tw33k]

Thanks Shawn..
What I did was create a new .bat (manage-bde -lock d: ) and saved it to c:\windows
I created a new key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell called "runas(2)"
Then followed the rest of his guide and it works!

 

[Brink]

Great news.