Windows 10: Applications starting in background messing with my encryption setup

Dear Windows 10 guru's,

I have a pretty neat setup where I have a shared home partition that I can use with Windows 10 as well as Linux on my laptop, but a change in login behavior changed my luck with this setup. All three partitions (Linux, Windows, Home) are encrypted, and VeraCrypt decrypts the home partition along with the system partition.

It used to be that if I waited a tiny bit before logging in after booting Windows, the home partition would be mounted correctly in time for me to not get any errors, since the data directories (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc.) are located on the home partition and thus can't be found before this drive is both decrypted and mounted succesfully.

Now I think an update in Windows made it such that before you log in on a single-user system it starts applications in the background before you login, which results in an array of errors and buggy behavior because Windows can't find the Desktop directory.

Is there any way to disable this behavior (aside from creating an additional user) or to configure a boot timeout to give VeraCrypt more time to mount the partition without third party applications? I'm more used to the Linux environment so these things might not be possible, if someone could point me in a direction that'd be great as well.

Thanks in advance!

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Background applications

Hi Robert,

We understand that you don't want some apps to run on the background of your computer. What we suggest is to
control which apps are allowed to run in the background. To see which apps have permission, just follow the below steps:

• Open the Start menu or Start screen and select “Settings.”
• Click or tap the “Privacy” icon in the Settings.
• Scroll down to the bottom of the list and select “Background apps.”
  
• You’ll see a list of apps that have permission to run in the background with an “On/Off” toggle.

Just bear in mind that, apps normally run in the background to update their live tiles, download new data, and receive notifications. If you want an app to continue performing these functions, you should allow it to continue running in
the background.

Feel free to update us with the results.

 

Device Encryption not avaiable

Hello Fraczek,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

We understand your concern in this regard.

• Are you referring to BitLocker Drive Encryption?
• What preventing you from doing this?
• Did you get any error message or code while doing this?

Before you come up with the above information, suggest you to refer the article

Help protect your files using BitLocker Drive Encryption and see if it help you.

Do refer the article
Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide and check if it help you with the required information.

Keep us posted if you require further assistance.

 

Encryption

Hello Miriam,

For us to be able to isolate your concern why your devices page says it is not encrypted when you've turn on encryption, kindly answer these questions:

• Does this happen before you encrypt the device?
• Which Windows version currently running on your device?
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?

We will be waiting for update.