How to lock the Bitlocker encrypted drive without restarting

If you have Bitlocker encrypted drives you know when you start your PC they are locked and you must use your password or Key to unlock them. But what do you do if you want to re-lock the Bitlocker drive? Normally, you'd have to re-start you computer which could be a pain if you just want to lock the drive while you are away from your PC or if you let another user use your computer and you do not want them to have access to that drive.

This small tutorial will show you how to re-lock a Bitlocker encrypted drive without restarting your computer. Here's how:

To add "Lock Drive..." to the Explorer right-click context menu...


Apply this registry update:


1) Open  Notepad and copy and paste following code, and save it as Lock.reg
and double click on it, it will add a registry value.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\Lock Drive...\command] @=hex(2):77,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,69,00,70,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,\   00,6d,00,61,00,6e,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,2d,00,62,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,76,00,\   62,00,73,00,20,00,2d,00,6c,00,6f,00,63,00,6b,00,20,00,2d,00,66,00,6f,00,72,\   00,63,00,65,00,64,00,69,00,73,00,6d,00,6f,00,75,00,6e,00,74,00,20,00,25,00,\   31,00,00,00

2) Open  Notepad , and paste following code, Save the following script as manage-bde.vbs
 and copy to the folder C:\Windows\System32

Set oWSH = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") Args = "" Last = Wscript.Arguments.Count - 1 For i = 0 To Last  Args = Args & " " & Wscript.Arguments.Item(i) Next Args = Replace(Args,"\","") RetVal = oWSH.Run("manage-bde.exe" & Args,0,True) Wscript.Quit RetVal

It is Done... Cheer up...
now, u will get a new 'Lock Drive' option on right-click context menu..


Be careful while typing extensions... like (.reg,  .vbs)

It is Working Cool In Windows 7 Ultimate... 

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