Laptops, external drives, and USB sticks are especially vulnerable to data theft, but with Windows and a few tools, you can ...

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With fingerprint sensors becoming the norm these days, Solid Explorer 2.2 impresses further with its fingerprint support, letting you open encrypted files sans a password.

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In a new type of attack, user files are encrypted remotely and attackers demand money for key to decode them.

Navigate to File Explorer on the taskbar > Select all files you'd like to add to your zip folder > Right click and select Send to > Select Compressed (zipped) folder > Rename your zip file and ...

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, File Explorer automatically encrypts files that are moved to an encrypted folder. This setting applies only to files moved within a volume.

In Windows XP Pro and 2000 (with NTFS-formatted drives), open Windows Explorer and right-click the folder you want to encrypt. Choose Properties, select the General tab, click the Advanced button, and ...

However, it relies on File Explorer for selecting what to encrypt, decrypt or shred rather than offering its own interface. In addition, it was consistently the slowest of the five.

Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files.