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If your computer is running the Ultimate or Enterprise edition of Windows 7 or Vista, you can use Microsoft’s included BitLocker feature to encrypt your entire drive. BitLocker offers protection ...

Most people who use the Home Edition of Windows 10 and 11 are unlikely to be aware that their computer also comes with a Microsoft encryption tool. On many computers, it’s even activated by default.

There's nothing worse than realizing your external hard drive has been lost or stolen, when it contains sensitive personal or ...

Fix BitLocker error E_FVE_TPM_NOT_DETECTED, The booting system doesn't have or doesn't detect a TPM in Windows 11/10.

To fix the “Cannot install Windows, BitLocker Drive Encryption is enabled on selected partition” error, suspend BitLocker via Settings or Control Panel, or use your recovery key to unlock the ...

Companies relying on Microsoft BitLocker to encrypt the drives of their employees’ computers should install the latest Windows patches immediately. A researcher disclosed a trivial Windows ...

To make BitLocker automatically unlock your drive, you need to open the BitLocker Drive Encryption panel in the Control Panel first. Here you can find an option named Turn on auto-unlock.

Although Windows ships with its own full volume encryption tool called BitLocker, SSDs that claimed to offer their own hardware-based encryption were trusted by the tool and left alone. Now though ...

When BitLocker encryption is enabled on a drive and its partitions, it prevents Windows from modifying or installing on the drive. In such cases, you see the “Windows cannot be installed on this ...