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[Ortiz Ullery]

andI tried to install this program to supposedly 'unlock' bitlocker on my Windows Home edition so I could encrypt my hard drive/operating system . I installed it, and it ran a DOS program for a split second, but it did not do anything after that, and neither did it even allo me to encrypt my drive.

@ajaaron: the test program outputs that BitLocker is disabled and so VeraCrypt should have displayed the same since they are both using the same code, but for some reason the behavior between the two is different. Something is definitely strange.

Concerning the program you installed, it looks suspicious to me especially after inspecting their website. In your place, I would be concerned about what this program did to the PC after installing it.

@enigma2illusion: the "EncryptionInProgress" is what is returned by the Windows API but it doesn't necessarily means that there is an encryption and that's why I ignore it. Somehow, Windows sets this value to 2 (or 4 in the case of OP) instead of 0.

Okey dokey...thanks for all your help Mounir. I managed to go to encryption settings area in windows and it gave me the option to 'decrypt' the drive, which I did...it took around 30min or so. it appears that dodgy program did something to make windows think it was encrypted. (not sure whether it really was encrypted or not, but I certainly didn't create an enceyption password, nor did I need to enter a password at any time).

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