How Do I Encrypt a Windows 7 Professional Hard Drive?
Contents Navigate to Local Computer Policy >> Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Bitlocker Drive Encryption >>...
Navigate to Local Computer Policy >> Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> BitLocker Drive Encryption >> Operating System. Here is what you’ll see. Double-click on Require additional authentication at startup and select Enabled.
Can you enable BitLocker on Windows 7 Professional?
Windows 7 Professional does not offer BitLocker, rather need Win7 Enterprise or Win7 Ultimate. Windows 8 Professional does offer BitLocker. If you are just looking to have some disk encryption you may want to check out TruCrypt instead for your Windows 7 pro installation.
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Does Windows 7 have encryption?
Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate has Bitlocker encryption included. Windows 7 Enterprise is only available through Volume Licensing. To take full advantage of the inbuilt encryption capabilities the desktops should have an TPM module installed, else a USB device will be needed to store the bitlocker key.
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