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I'm not a Windows user anymore but have seen references to bitlocker. For any others curious its disk encryption, so users with it cannot apply the fix because booting into safe mode to delete a file requires unlocking the disk encryption. I'd imagine safe mode doesn't have networking? That doesn't sound too safe so yeah this is an IT nightmare logistics issue for remote workers with encrypted drives.


Microsoft added 'safe mode with networking' a long time ago.




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