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 and ...

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 ...

Back in May, a report suggested that Microsoft was looking to default-encrypt Windows 11 24H2 Home PCs. This could lead to potential performance loss, even on fast NVMe SSDs, though CPUs can be a ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

BitLocker is Microsoft’s easy-to-use, proprietary encryption program for Windows that can encrypt your entire drive as well as help protect against unauthorized changes to your system such as firmware ...