This login cannot be bypassed by removing the hard drive or by booting off a CD. No password, no access - thieves are locked out. Your encrypted hard drive is inaccessible unless a special login and password are entered. All your data is fully protected - even temporary and deleted files. If your laptop PC is stolen or lost, hard drive encryption prevents your personal data from getting into the wrong hands, even if you never recover your hardware. It jumbles the data in such a way that it cannot be deciphered unless a special password is entered. Here's what I found.ĭescription: Hard drive encryption makes everything on your computer's hard drive unreadable to unauthorized eyes. Fortunately, there's a nice (if temporary) workaround you can take advantage of if you'd like to use BitLocker To Go.
I've found an excellent replacement for BitLocker, but have yet to find anything that is as seamless and well designed as BitLocker To Go. You can find out more about BitLocker To Go in my Windows 7 Feature Focus article. BitLocker To Go, meanwhile, debuts in Windows 7 and adds this same encryption functionality to removable storage media like USB memory keys.
But for now, you'll need to seek out other ways to duplicate the functionality in the features Microsoft provides via its BitLocker and BitLocker To Go functionality.īitLocker came first, in Windows Vista, and provides full-disk encryption for fixed hard drives. I'd like to see that change in the future. These features are so key, in fact, that I consider it almost criminal that Microsoft doesn't make them available to all Windows users. And they're both based around the notion of encryption-based data protection. In fact, there are really only two key features that are unique to Windows 7 Ultimate. But when you jump up from Professional to Ultimate, there's an even smaller leap. When you move up from Home Premium to Professional, you get a smaller bump in functionality, and if you look over the past two parts of this series, you'll see some of the key Windows 7 features that are unique to Professional edition and the free or cheap tools I recommend to Home Premium users to replace them. Windows 7 Home Premium is, quite clearly, the sweet spot from a functionality perspective and the reason I consider this version to be the starting point for any Windows 7 user, and the focal point of this article.
As you step through the various Windows 7 product editions, an interesting picture emerges.
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