I rebooted. Logged in, and there's some notification asking me to backup the key because it is encrypting my file system. I didn't ask it to do that, and I wasn't even logged in as admin before ...

Press "Windows-E" on your keyboard to open Windows Explorer. Navigate to the folder where the file you wish to encrypt is located. Right-click the file name and click "Properties." ...

Follow these steps to create an encrypted archive of your file or folder: Download and install 7-Zip on your Windows computer. In Windows File Explorer, navigate to the files and folders you want ...

F or the past few decades, Windows has used the NTFS file system as the default for fixed drives on a PC, and that has stuck all the way through today. In recent years, though, Microsoft has been ...

In contrast to Mac operating system, Windows lacks features to encrypt or password protect files. The single possibility to make this happen is by installing third-party applications specialized ...

Windows 7 and Windows Vista’s Ultimate and Enterprise editions include a feature called BitLocker that can encrypt whole hard drives, right down to the system files and password caches.

Microsoft’s Encrypting File System, which is used to encrypt data on Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 computers, relies on a public key certificate. If you don’t have a public-key ...

With Apple's licensing of Microsoft's exFAT file system, it seems like we finally have a good option for OS X and Windows disk swapping. Dave Girard spent some time investigating the appeal, the ...