Basically, I'm curious to know how much in battery life and/or other performance improvement is the move from software to hardware bitlocker. Any experiences? Thoughts? Longer version: Whole disk ...

Long story short: I found out that Bitlocker now acutally supports Preboot-Authentification with a long password without TPM or the need for a USB-Key and ended up using that + Softwareencryption.

If you see This PC doesn't support entering a BitLocker recovery password during startup, enable WinRE, tweak Group Policy, ...

When you run BitLocker on a Win10 system with a solid state drive that has built-in hardware encryption, BitLocker relies on the self-encrypting drive’s own capabilities.

BitLocker recovery key saved my PC after an update locked me out. Here’s how I used the recovery key from my Microsoft account to unlock encrypted drives.

Encryption is an added level of security for you PC. Here are the pros and cons of Microsoft’s built-in encryption tool BitLocker.

Security settings beyond BitLocker There is more than BitLocker in an operating system that will allow control over encryption settings.

Microsoft says that while BitLocker relies on a drive’s hardware encryption by default, it is possible to force a drive to use BitLocker’s software encryption instead.

The encryption software was originally only included within Ultimate and Enterprise editions of previous operating systems can now be found in the more affordable Windows 8 Pro variation.

A few weeks ago, the BBC News published a story that was literally true and hopelessly wrong. No, Microsoft isn't building a back door into Windows Vista's industrial-strength encryption feature ...