Excessive time to complete encryption on systems that enter sleep mode

Technical Articles ID: KB84550
Last Modified: 4/10/2023

Drive Encryption (DE) 7.x

For details of DE 7.x supported environments, see KB79422 - Supported platforms for Drive Encryption 7.x.

After successfully installing and activating DE, the time to complete the hard-disk encryption is considerably longer on some systems.

Sleep mode is configured within the Windows Power Settings options. When a system is placed into Sleep mode, the encryption process is paused.

Make either one of the following changes:

To change the Sleep mode settings:

After the system has finished encrypting, return the Sleep mode settings back to the original configuration.

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