Windows7 system function for U disk encryption

Now, select the mobile storage device, everyone will choose U disk, its capacity has evolved from an inconspicuous look to a tens of G capacity. However, because of its convenience, many people did not set a password for it, resulting in the loss of data. In fact, setting passwords is not that much trouble. Xiaobian found that the windows7 system has a function to encrypt our U disk, the following small series will be demonstrated.
When we start the BitLocker security feature of Windows 7, we need to log in to the Windows 7 system as an administrator to use it. In view of many netizens, it is not clear how to log in to the system as an administrator. Let's start with a demonstration. If you know you can skip this part.
Log in as an administrator
First step, click on the "Start" menu, find "All Programs" in the "All Programs" and click on "Command Prompt".

The second step is to enter the following command: <;net user administrator /active:yes” Then log out or restart the system, you can use the super administrator account. In particular, the spaces here are all three, so to enter it is to press the space bar three times.

Of course, if you do not need a super administrator account after the decision, the operation steps are the same as above, just replace the input command with “yes” with “no”.
Windows7 system function for U disk encryption
The first step, in the "computer" interface, right click on the U disk that needs to add a password, provided that the U disk has a certain storage space. Select “Enable BitLocker…” from the context menu.

The second step, start up takes a little time. In the “BitLocker Drive Encryption” interface, select “Use password to unlock the drive”, and then you need to enter the password twice in succession. The password here needs 8 characters, which means you need to enter 8 letters or numbers. Click “Next”.

The third step, & ldquo;BitLocker” interface will prompt to create a recovery key to save to a file or print to retain, this proposal is kept in the file to prevent forgetting the password. You will get a text file with the name "BitLocker recovery key ***.txt", which you can use later to retrieve the password.


fourth step, you can click on the & ldquo; start encryption & rdquo;, BitLocker start your U disk encryption, and file size according to need a little time. In this way, our U disk has been "locked", and only after the password is correctly entered, the U disk can be used normally, and the privacy can be well preserved.




U disk is not only available in windows7 system, but also in XP system. However, the XP system can open the USB flash drive, but the files inside still need to be correctly entered to open. If you want to know more about computer skills, please pay attention to the "Computer Skills" channel on the computer PepsiNet. There are more surprises waiting for everyone.