[GordonS]

When I first setup Bitlocker on Windows 10, I was hunting for the option to enter a pre-boot password, but couldn't find it. I don't even think it have me the option of entering a PIN.

For some reason, if you have a TPM installed you need to jump through hoops to add a pre-boot PIN, and more so if you want to enable a pre-boot password. I had to flip various Windows security policy settings before it would work.

a TPM and pre-boot PIN/password work against different attack vectors - I really don't understand why Microsoft would want to hide these options.

[ragona]

Yeah, I had to jump through the same hoops. They're really odd, and they seem like low hanging fruit in terms of improving the customer experience for BitLocker.