Users may find it helpful to create a special shortcut to open the BitLocker Drive Encryption window directly with one click. From there, you can suspend drive protection, change drive unlock at startup, back up your recovery key, or completely disable BitLocker for one or more installed drives. In this TWC article, we will show you how to create a shortcut on the desktop to launch the BitLocker Drive Encryption panel under Windows 10.
Create a BitLocker Drive Encryption shortcut
To create a desktop shortcut, right-click an empty area of your desktop, and then click New > Shortcut.
Copy and paste the following in the Location field, and then click Next:
%windir%explorer.exe shell:::{D9EF8727-CAC2-4e60-809E-86F80A666C91}
Type BitLocker Drive Encryption for the name and click on finish button.
Right click on the new BitLocker Drive Encryption Shortcutand click properties.
Click on Shortcut tabthen click on the Change icon button.
Now copy and paste the following text into the Look for icons in this file field and press Enter:
%windir%System32DxpTaskSync.dll
Select the highlighted blue icon and click D & #39; agreement.
Click on D & #39; agreement in the next pop-up window.
You can give the shortcut any name or use any icon of your choice.
You have now created the shortcut on the desktop to open the BitLocker Drive Encryption panel.
