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

How to use BitLocker on Windows 11. Windows 11 has a feature called BitLocker, which encrypts your data to keep it safe from others. Here's how to set it up.

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 ...

If you're running Windows, you've probably run into the BitLocker Recovery screen at some point. Here's everything you need to know about the Microsoft program.

If you do not want to use smart cards on BitLocker removable data drives in Windows 11/10 PC, you can follow this guide minutely. Here is how you can prevent users from using smart cards on ...

Using PowerShell to find BitLocker-enabled devices. Let’s start off with PowerShell. The manage-bde -status c: command indicates whether BitLocker is enabled on the device.

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.

BitLocker is only offered with Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise editions. If you have Windows 10 Home and want to encrypt your machine, you will either need to upgrade to Pro to use ...

While device encryption is available in all versions of Windows 10, it has a particular significance in the Home version, where the full BitLocker isn't available.