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I have a couple of external USB drives for backups of data, attached to my PC. The drives are Bitlocker encrypted, in case one gets lost or stolen. Everytime I start the PC I have to use my Bitlocker password to get access to the drives.
However, I recently discovered that once I have access to a drive, if I turn off the PC by hitting the power button instead of doing a proper shutdown through the Start menu, any "open" drives remain open. Next time I start the machine, the drive is immediately accessible. No password needed! You have to go through the proper shutdown procedure to ensure your machine won't have immediate access to the drive on the next startup.
I must admit I haven't checked if a different computer will also have access to the drive left open on my main PC. But the point is: My main PC may get stolen with the external drives during a burglary, for example.
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
modified 1hr 10mins ago.
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Check the power management settings - your power button is probably set to "sleep" or "hibernate" but there is a "Shut down" option which should restart the OS on power up and require access control to the drives: Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > Chose what the power buttons do
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Yes, I found the setting to change what the power buttons do. I changed that from "sleep" to "shut down".
BUT: There is no way to save this change!  At least not in the very latest version of Windows 11! When I exit the settings panel, Windows resets the setting to the default "sleep"! Stoopid Windows!
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Did you hit the "Change settings that are currently unavailable" - the system settings are in UAC Registry so unless you are elevated, it won't change. Mine is set to "Shut down" and that is persistent.
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I noticed similar with an encrypted USB drive - one of those with a keypad built into it to key a pin (6 digits).
One thing you might be able to do to change things is messing with the power states for them.
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wow.
The credentials are not revoked when restarting a machine ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Depends: if you hibernate or sleep, then probably not unless you log off and log in again. And since most people have "auto logout" disabled to save effort ... 
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I love solving problems using template metaprogramming. It's probably a bad thing, because I tend to gravitate toward it unless I stop myself.
In this case, I have a good reason for it. I need to do color model conversions at compile time.
A pixel has channels, like Red Green and Blue, or Hue Saturation Value, or Y U V, etc
It may also have a metachannel of sorts called an alpha channel.
It might even have no-op channels that do nothing but take up space (for in memory padding)
The presence of no-op channels and alpha channel makes things sort of complicated when determining the color model.
I have
rgb_pixel<16>::has_channel_names<channel_name::R, channel_name::G, channel_name::B>::value
For example (which resolves to true in the above case) for determining the color model - RGB as above in this case.
In order to be more robust, I need to have a different version of that template like, has_color_model or something.
But also, it's a tricky problem to solve with templates. That's what I like.
Sane people play sudoku.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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When they rewrote Windows explorer for Win 11, they clearly gave the job to the office junior, who had no idea what the previous version (matured for decades in the warm heat of actual usage) was capable of. And they didn't bother to find out because adding tabs was clearly a much more interesting use of their time.
And today I notice they have put something back: you can now drop files onto parts of the address bar to copy / move files to the parent folder (for example) or onto the folder list on the left!
Taken 'em long enough to put back a useful function, but I'm happy they finally did.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Oh I've missed that particular feature greatly!
I've just got to wait for our instance to catch up ... :tapping fingers:, :tapping foot:
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So have I - the tabs are still useless because you can't drop onto tabs, but ... maybe in a decade they'll think of that.
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Still on Win10 here... are you telling me that in Win11 you couldn't (until now) drag/drop directly onto the folder (treeview) panel? That's absolutely crazy! I even have links to FTP sites so that I can just drag-drop up to FTP (without having to open the FTP folder and get the file list, which takes foreeeeever).
That said, I currently (starting a week or so ago) have an issue where if I right-click anything in explorer (to access anything on the context menu) it takes a good 30 seconds to open... I'm assuming a 3rd party tool (e.g. SodaPDF, Notepad++, PowerISO or something) is broken... nothing updated for a while. Except.. yes a Windows update, 13th June. doh...
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I had that as well - lasted about a week, but suddenly went away. I thought it was doing a "proper reboot" of my system that cured it, but probably not.
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Kent beat you to it: The Insider News[^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Strange. I could've sworn Kaspersky got banned at least half a decade ago.
Or maybe that was "the US government", as opposed to "the US" in general...?
I'm tempted to suggest that while they're at it, they should ban the sale of all antivirus software (since, according to most industry pundits, the one built into Windows is now, and has been, "good enough" for a long time...but then I suppose MS would become complacent.
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English is not my mother tongue but "favorited" sounds like a complete abomination. However Microsoft seems to think otherwise. This is a screen capture from Windows Explorer. How would you vote: to favorite or not to favorite?
PS A phrase like "After you marked some files as favourites, we'll show them here", wouldn't have been much longer and for sure would have been more grammatically sound.
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Using past tense in such scenarios can be problematic.
Best not to verb it.
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