Windows 7 64-bit & Bitlocker = PC won’t power off
Yesterday I reinstalled my laptop with Windows 7 64-bit as it was still running the Windows 7 release candidate which will, on purpose, be acting strange from February 15th onwards (http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7091).
I noticed however that after enabling bitlocker on my system drive my laptop was not shutting down properly anymore. After having shut down windows, the screen turned black and the laptop stopped responding while still being powered on.
After a quick search on Google it seemed that it wasn’t just my laptop having this problem and that this was a known issue for which a hotfix was available from Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975496). Indeed the problem was solved by installing this hotfix.
The only question that remains is although this hotfix has been there since November last year, it is still not being delivered via Windows Update.