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LOL. When there's so much text I only quick-scanned through it...

Allow me to ask: "WHAT are you trying to type?" - the 48-digit recovery password is digits only and won't accept any letters. So if you mistakenly try to input letters or special characters, they won't be typable.

Googles AI Gemini just confirms:

Be aware that on vbox, the virtual NIC driver seems to be the culprit. If I choose virtIO as virtual NIC, the NIC driver poses no problem, if I remember correctly.

Several ways: 1 EIDauthenticate, which creates a a local CA and writes a certificate to for example a yubikey to enable PIV Smartcard authentication. This could use other smartcards as well (free) - the setup can only be found using web archive. What's still free and available is this...

Not every site will allow you to utilize your Yubikey. The number is growing, but still many (possibly more than half) will not offer it. That said, at the moment, I use this: password manager with browser integration (it can enter the passwords as an in-browser manager can) and the password...

@WIN11User - is that from chatGPT, or who says "the YubiKey 5C NFC does not natively support discoverable passkeys as defined by the WebAuthn (Web Authentication) standard."? I have used passkeys on yubikey 5 NFC, and was under the impression that means, they are discoverable. "Pressing "Use...

If someone tells me "you can create a passkey on another device" and there's a button "Use another device", guess what I would do? Possibly, your yubikey is addressed than. Possibly, windows' first choice is a different device that you are not aware of - so simply try it out.

During auto insertion? If you wanted to, you could turn off asking altogether, that's another option in the depicted chrome password menu ("sign in automatically")

Microsoft Authenticator is not available for PC (only for SmartPhones)

Keepass is a free and simple PC app that may serve as 2FA authentication source since it supports OTP generation via plugins. No texts / OTP needed to complete the installation, open source and also portable.

You are definitely a standard user, you write. UAC cannot elevate users to admins without credentials. In no configuration at all. So either you are admin and are not aware of it (via nested groups, for example) or your installation is broken.

You may add a recovery password at all times and if it has been set already, retrieve it, if you are local admin. Examples for an elevated cmd: manage-bde -protectors -get c: manage-bde -protectors -add c: -rp

Be aware that BL does not auto activate without a key backup. If that deleted installation never belonged to a company network, then the key MUST have been saved to an MS account - which? You tell me. Can potentially be any account that ever logged on to your machine. Now why would you not...

@author please specify whether it annoys you to enter a masterpassword when viewing or editing passwords in chrome's internal password manager, or during auto-insertion of passwords. That are two different things. Also FYI: setting up a the master password for chrome's pw manager does not in...