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[tunnie]

Anybody have any experience of this? This piece of crap is now standard issue on our laptops, you plug any portable hard drive in and it asks you do you want to encrypt it with bit locker?

If you don't, it makes it read only. 

I've an external drive I use for backups & I don't want to encrypt it.

Anyone had any experience of disabling it via registry or any other method? 

[Jimbob]

More to the point....disabling it is probably a disciplinary, so be careful

We use to have similar....before they even removed read access!

[tunnie]

More to the point....disabling it is probably a disciplinary, so be careful

We use to have similar....before they even removed read access!

Apparently you can get approval for disabling it, but can see that taking 6months to approve!

Its bloody annoying, I use an external drive here as an "off site" backup for my personal photos, I simply want to copy them across but no, thats too simple for this crap extra.

The bugger is if you do encrypt it, makes it useless to access from other computer 

[Jimbob]

Storing your own data on the work laptop may be a no-no too

(sorry, not trying to be a pain, more help, I'd check your IT policy carefully)

[tunnie]

Storing your own data on the work laptop may be a no-no too

(sorry, not trying to be a pain, more help, I'd check your IT policy carefully)

No probs, don't recall ever being told its a no-no. But I bet it could be hidden in the T&C's

Been Googling for a while now, just cannot find a "nice-n-simple" registry "patch"

My previous XP laptop had number of non "standard" patches applied to make it better. Never got noticed 

[hotel21]

Storing your own data on the work laptop may be a no-no too

(sorry, not trying to be a pain, more help, I'd check your IT policy carefully)

No probs, don't recall ever being told its a no-no. But I bet it could be hidden in the T&C's

Been Googling for a while now, just cannot find a "nice-n-simple" registry "patch"

My previous XP laptop had number of non "standard" patches applied to make it better. Never got noticed 

You guys know more about the application of 'patches' to software than I do but I will remind you that no discussion of 'alternate' or circumvention methods of software on here please......

  

[Martian]

If you can't disable Bitlocker in the Control Panel, then it's odds on you won't have the necessary priveleges to edit the registry either.

Why not just boot the laptop from a live *nix CD?
That way you aren't interfering with the operation of the laptop in any way, shape or form....and hence can't be in breach of any T&C's as far as the IT equipment is concerned 

[Kevin Wood]

If you can't disable Bitlocker in the Control Panel, then it's odds on you won't have the necessary priveleges to edit the registry either.

Yep, can't believe there'll be an easy way to circumvent it with grunt user privileges, and for good reason. It's there to stop company data being lifted gigabytes at a time.

[Plomien]

let it transfer them as read only then run a batch program to change them from read only

[Kevin Wood]

let it transfer them as read only then run a batch program to change them from read only

The entire drive will be mounted read only unless it has been encrypted, so no way to transfer anything onto it.

[CaptainZok]

How about copying your porn stash holiday snaps to dropbox then you can move em anywhere you wish.

[Plomien]

try turning it off on start up in msconfig and services

[Martian]

try turning it off on start up in msconfig and services

He won't have the privelege level to modify them either if he can't do as I said above.

[D]

Like Jimbob said, be careful about the legalities of disabling any encryption software. Even the NHS trust I work for has strict disciplinary protocols against disabling or using a non encrypted device within their network.

[tunnie]

let it transfer them as read only then run a batch program to change them from read only

You can't transfer items when the disk is read only, its write protected, you cannot copy to it 

If you can't disable Bitlocker in the Control Panel, then it's odds on you won't have the necessary priveleges to edit the registry either.

Why not just boot the laptop from a live *nix CD?
That way you aren't interfering with the operation of the laptop in any way, shape or form....and hence can't be in breach of any T&C's as far as the IT equipment is concerned 

I have full admin rights, if I knew what registry command to run, it would work....

How about copying your porn stash holiday snaps to dropbox then you can move em anywhere you wish.

While I'm a big fan of dropbox, its not suitable for uploading 4.5Gb!

Like Jimbob said, be careful about the legalities of disabling any encryption software. Even the NHS trust I work for has strict disciplinary protocols against disabling or using a non encrypted device within their network.

Not worried about that, my previous XP laptop was heavily modified from its original shipped state