How to enable or disable enhanced pins for BitLocker startup in Windows. Concerned about unauthorized access to your Windows device. Bit Locker's enhanced PIN adds an extra layer of protection right from startup. In this video, we'll show you how to activate it and strengthen your device security. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub and our YouTube channel for more tech content. Like this requirements for enabling Bit Locker's, enhanced Pins for enhanced pins to work. Your system should meet the following requirements for BIT Locker's, enhanced pins to work your system. Drive must not be encrypted. Be separate from the OS drive. Be formatted with FAT 32 for UEFI firmware or NTFS for BIOS firmware. Be at least 350 megabytes with at least 250 megabytes of free space. In addition, your Windows system must run on an addition that supports BitLocker such as Windows 10 slash 11. Pro Enterprise education. BitLocker requires a trusted platform module TPM version of 1.2 or higher for pin authentication. Otherwise, you must save the startup key on A USB drive. Finally, you need admin level access to set up enhanced pins. How to enable enhanced pin For BitLocker setup, you can enable enhanced pins using command prompt in two ways. Let's walk you through each one. The first method involved the group policy editor press win plus R and type GP edit. Do MSC and press enter to open the group policy editor. Navigate to computer configuration administrative templates, windows components BitLocker drive encryption operating system drives. Locate the policy, allow enhanced pins for startup and double click it to enable it. Click apply then. Okay, to save the changes, restart your system to implement the new settings. You can also use the elevated command prompt open command prompt. As administrator enter this command. Restart the system to apply the changes. How to disable BitLocker, enhance pin in windows. Now let's go over how to disable your enhanced pins. To disable enhanced pins using the group policy editor, press win plus R and type GP edit MSC and press enter to open the group policy editor. Navigate to computer configuration administrative templates, windows components BitLocker drive encryption operating system drives. Set the policy to require additional authentication or uncheck the allow enhanced pins for startup box box. Restart your PC to apply the changes to disable enhanced PIN using command prompt, open command prompt as administrator. Enter the command below replacing drive letter with your system. Drive restart the system to apply the changes and that's how you can enable enhanced pins for BitLocker startup. For more information, check out our official blog post on how to enable or disable enhanced pins for BitLocker startup and Windows linked in the description below.