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How can I stop the Windows Recovery Environment being used as a back door?
You can use reagentc to disable WinRE:
reagentc /disable
See the Microsoft documentation for additional command-line options.
When WinRE is disabled in this way, the startup menus are still ...
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How can I stop the Windows Recovery Environment being used as a back door?
Use BitLocker, or any other hard drive encryption. It's the only reliable and truly secure way to achieve what you want.
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How can I stop the Windows Recovery Environment being used as a back door?
run the following command to disable Recovery Environment due to shutdown failures (which includes intentionally yanking the power cord):
bcdedit /set {current} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures
Also ...
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How can I stop the Windows Recovery Environment being used as a back door?
Bit Locker also works in the case when someone steals your hard drive and use this as his secondary drive in his Pc so that Pc boot with his OS and secondary hard drive as a drive only it does not ...
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