Encrypt your data to protect against unauthorized access in your mobile and computer. Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized user can read it. Simply, encrypting a files means to  translation the files into a secret code in order to protect it from unauthorized access even the data has stolen.

The data, personal files, videos, photos and messages in a computer Laptop or mobile the most important things for a user. But in this article we exactly show you, how encrypt your data in Windows, iOS, and Android to secure your devices a step ahead.

Encrypt Your Data in Windows

In Windows operating system, you can encrypt a file from file properties. Just right click the file and go to properties.

On the General tab of file properties page, click Advanced and open the advanced attributes page.

Tick the Encrypt contents to secure data box and click OK to apply the changes, click OK on the file properties page also.

To encrypt files with sub-folders and files, select Apply changes to this folder, sub-folders and files then click OK.

When you click OK, the system ask you to backup the encryption key.

Now, you see the backup balloon of encryption in right side of task-bar. Click on that and back up the keys.

Click the Back up now (recommended) and go to certification export wizard page.

On the Welcome to the Certificate Export Wizard page click Next.

Just leave the default selected option and click Next.

Type a password to keep secure the exported certification and click Next.

Choose a location to save the EFS key in a secure location and click Next.

Finally click Finish to complete the task and see the EFS Certification backups.

Note: 

• Don’t lost the back up keys
• Don’t share with other users
• Keep it in a secure place

Here is the result.

That is all about file and folder encryption in Windows operating system. To encrypt entire driver or disk, you can use Bitlocker driver encryption which is a enterprise feature of Windows. See more at Enable BitLocker Drive Encryption on Windows To Protect Your Data

If your Windows doesn’t have Bitlocker driver encryption, try to encrypt with third party application like VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt.

The next topic will go to encrypt files in Android devices. If you have any question please comment us.

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The BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full disk encryption feature included with Pro editions of Windows. It is and enterprise level of Windows Features. So the BitLocker is not for basic and home edition of any Windows. If you want to use this feature of your Windows Operating system, in order to protect your data from loss, theft, or hackers, your must have at least Windows 8 Pro edition. The BitLocker drive encryption is available in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, then it is not only for Windows 8. The graphical BitLocker interface in Windows Vista could only encrypt the operating system volume, encrypting other volumes could be achieved through an included command-line tool

How to Enable BitLocker Drive Encryption?

In this article I’m going to test BitLocker on Windows 10 and it must work the same as equivalent edition of Windows. Using BitLocker drive encryption is easy, but the most important things is to do not forget your BitLocker password when you encrypt a drive.

So go to Windows control panel, in Windows 10 press Windows button + X then press P to open control panel or search Bitlocker on Windows Start menu. It is the shortest way to reach Bitlocker. Now open Bitlocker Driver Encryption and you must see a page like screenshot.

Here we have two types of drive encryption. One is for Operating system drive which is contain the Windows system files and startup files and another is Fixed data drive which is only keep non Windows files. Firs try to enable for Fixed drive like drive D: and F:.

Enable BitLocker Drive Encryption for Fixed Data Drives

It is easy, just click Turn on BitLocker for each fixed drive you need to enable it. I’m try on drive D: which is a fixed data drive.

On the Chose how you want to unlock this drive page, check the Use a password to unlock the drive, then enter the password. Enter some strong password, should contain small and capital alphabets, numbers, symbols and the length must be at least 8 characters. Don? So press enter or click Next.

Now save the BitLocker recovery key to a file, your Microsoft account or print it to paper. The easiest way is save to a file, write or print it.

Note: don’t forget to save your password to safe place. If you forgot your password, you will loss your files.

When you have saved the password click Next. On the next page leave the default, Encrypt used disk space only… and click Next. 

Now the system ask you, are you ready to encrypt your drive? Simply click start encryption.

Let the BitLocker drive encryption completely encrypt your drive. It take a while and depend on your drive files.

Now, your drive is successfully encrypted and it has locked with a golden lock. In order to unlock it, click twice and enter the password.

You can Manage BitLocker options from Bitlocker page. changing password, Turn it on or off, and even remove password.

That was all about fixed drive and some other Bitlocker functions on Windows. But how to enable it on System drive where Windows is located? In the next article I will show you How to enable Bitlocker for Operating system drive?.  So hope you enjoy this article.

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