Laptops, external drives, and USB sticks are especially vulnerable to data theft, but with Windows and a few tools, you can ...

To turn on BitLocker, go to the Control Panel and look for the BitLocker Drive Encryption panel. If you have Category View turned on, look for it under System and Security.

Windows BitLocker is a drive-encryption feature built into Windows Vista Enterprise, Vista Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 and the still-to-come Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate.

The BitLocker encryption built into higher-end versions of Windows Vista goes a long way toward locking out intruders at the boot-drive level, but it's neither 100% hassle-free nor 100% secure.

BitLocker to Go, which is available on Windows 8 Professional and Enterprise editions, now has the ability to progressively encrypt only the portions of a drive you’re actually using, instead of ...

Have you tried turning it off and on again?" Now Microsoft has offered the same advice to users of the BitLocker full disk encryption feature in Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise versions.

USB drives, external HDDs, and memory cards—remains the go-to for transferring and backing up data. But these devices are also among the easies ...

New to Windows, albeit in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista only, is BitLocker drive encryption technology. Using either a TPM module, or a USB key, it allows you to completely encrypt ...

We show you how to resume or suspend BitLocker encryption on Windows 11/10 using the Control Panel. There may come a time when you may need to do this.

Both Windows Vista and Mac OS X can encrypt files and protect them from the prying eyes of thieves and snoops. Vista's new BitLocker feature and Mac OS X's FileVault are especially useful to those ...

Windows BitLocker is a drive-encryption feature built into Windows Vista Enterprise, Vista Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 and the still-to-come Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate.