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

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 ...

How to encrypt PCs and USB drives in Windows Home edition Since device encryption and BitLocker are not available on Windows Home editions, most Windows users will need a third-party encryption ...

PCs since Windows Vista can use BitLocker encryption. In the Windows 10 era, BitLocker has gotten more convenient through hardware extras that companies include inside their PCs to keep the ...

To protect an external drive with BitLocker to Go, first connect the drive to a USB port and wait for Windows to recognize it and assign a drive letter. Switch to Desktop mode, open File Explorer ...

Windows Vista Ultimate's new drive encryption feature BitLocker supposedly works with a regular USB drive. But if you pulled your hair out trying to enable it using Microsoft's non-existent ...

Q: I recently installed BitLocker on my laptop in an effort to provide security for the data in the event the computer is lost or stolen. I used the option to create a Startup Key with a USB drive ...

Because the Windows partition will be encrypted with BitLocker, if you want to protect your data on other partitions, you can use Windows built-in EFS. Note that TPM is not a replacement for a USB ...

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 also lacks support for both USB drives and CryptoAPI (a set of dynamically linked libraries that isolates programmers from data encryption code).