Legit question. Back in the day using something like TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt imparted such a performance hit that it was almost not worth it. Thats why many of us were happy when bitlocker was ...

Encrypting a certain file or folder is probably the best way to keep it safe, so only you can access that file or folder. Microsoft's developers decided to keep the built-in encryption method in ...

Nobody who values the files on their computer should be without at least two regularly updated methods for backing them up. External drives are perfect for this. You can plug them into your computer, ...

As someone that did helpdesk for consumers for a long time, MS having the code was the only reason we were able to recover a large amount of data for many customers. That being said, people still ...

. External drives are perfect for this. You can plug them into your computer, copy over your precious files, and then stick the drives somewhere safe and, ideally, not near your computer in order to ...