How to Disable BitLocker on Windows 11

Learn the methods to turn off BitLocker encryption on a Windows 11 device, whether for a single machine or across your network.

How to Disable BitLocker on Windows 11
Computer Everywhere
1.1K views • Jul 30, 2025
How to Disable BitLocker on Windows 11

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Several reasons exist for wanting to turn off BitLocker on an individual machine or across your network. In Windows 11, you can disable BitLocker using three methods: the GUI, PowerShell, or Group Policy.








What you'll learn:
1. Disable with the GUI
a. How To disable BitLocker with the GUI
b. How to Open BitLocker via the Windows Start menu
c. How to Select the relevant drive and disable BitLocker
d. How to start decrypting your drive
2. Disable BitLocker with PowerShell
a. How To disable BitLocker on several PCs
b. How you can use PowerShell to automate the process
c. How to Open a PowerShell terminal with administrative rights
d. How to Check the BitLocker status
e. How to decrypt your drive
f. How To disable BitLocker for a specific drive
g. How you can verify BitLocker encryption has been disabled
h. How to disable bitlocker in external hard drive
3. Disable BitLocker on the Command Prompt
a. How to Launch a Command Prompt with administrative rights
b. How You can disable BitLocker for a specific drive with command
c. How to check bitlocker status with command
4. Disable with Group Policy
a. How to disable BitLocker on a larger number of machines in your network
b. How to disable BitLocker on system drives
c. How to Open the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) with administrative rights
d. How to disable Require additional authentication at startup and Enforce drive encryption type on operating system drives policies
e. How to disable BitLocker on Fixed and Removable Data Drives
5. How You can turn off BitLocker in Windows 11 using different methods



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