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I really tried to use VeraCrypt on my main desktop Windows machine. But every Windows 10 major update was a chore to get working with decrypting everything, especially with GPT. (Did you know that if you leave updating Windows too long the calculator just straight up stops working?) Eventually I caved in and bought Windows Pro so I could use BitLocker (I'm aware of the problems of using closed-source encryption software but it's good enough for me). Another sad victory for Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.

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I had that issue for a while but VC finally fixed it and haven’t seen any problems since.

My computer had a problem (not uncommon apparently) that forced Windows to be the default EUFI boot option. Admittedly this is perhaps more of a laptop manufacturer bug than a problem from Microsoft.

I used a workaround suggested on the VeraCrypt forums: renaming the Windows boot loader, replacing it with the VeraCrypt one, and pointing VeraCrypt at the renamed option. This meant that any Windows update that updated the boot loader would break the whole arrangement and to fix it I needed to boot from a USB stick.

I think I most recently tried on version 1.22. It does sound like this version has some relevant fixes though.

One of my computers successfully updated from 1803 to 1809 without having to decrypt and re-encrypt the boot drive. So I thought the problem had been fixed, but it wasn't. I couldn't go from 1809 to 1903 without decrypting. I'll cross my fingers and try it again when 1909 comes out.

Another machine couldn't even update to 1809 without decrypting. After updating and re-encrypting, it refuses to mount any system favorite volumes. VeraCrypt is a mess. Or rather, Windows keeps breaking things.

I have the same problem at the moment.... I want to update my Windows 10 (from 1803 to 1903), but it is simply not possible. Everytime I want to update I get an error (0xc190012e)... I uninstalled VeraCrypt and decrypted all of my drives (Took quite a long time..), but no success.

Probably this does not even has to do with VeraCrypt: After a bit of research I found some posts. It seems like this error is caused by my SSD... I guess I have to reinstall my Windows.

>Did you know that if you leave updating Windows too long the calculator just straight up stops working?

Doesn't make sense to me. Cos on my laptops is running a 2015 version of windows 10. I refused to update it. Yet calculator still works there.

It's possible that you're right and mine only works cos I did a lot of firewalling.

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