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Are you looking for the best TrueCrypt alternative for Windows to protect your data in Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 Home & Windows 7 Pro? We know that the free and open source software TrueCrypt was launched in 2004, it has a large number of users all over the world, but unfortunately it stopped developing in May 2014 and was no longer maintained. Now if you visit TrueCrypt's homepage, you will see a red warning message: "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues" and recommending that you switch to Microsoft's BitLocker. We still don’t know exactly why TrueCrypt was shut down — perhaps the developers were being pressured by a government, or perhaps they were simply sick of maintaining it. However, for whatever reason, for us it did get shut down.
In short, the developers suddenly said the code was “not secure” and halted development, and recommended using BitLocker as a TrueCrypt Alternative for Windows 11/10/8/7. BitLocker is a full disk encryption software developed by Microsoft for Windows, which is built into the Windows 11/10/8/7 by default, it is stable and secure, and is the preferred encryption scheme for Windows users. Unfortunately, the Windows 11/10/8/7 Home & Windows 7 Pro Editions does not provide the full features of BitLocker, this is why we cannot use BitLocker to encrypt drive in these editions of Windows.Is there any way to use BitLocker to encrypt volume in these editions of Windows to protect data? The answer is YES, you can use the best TrueCrypt alternative Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere to encrypt volume in these editions of Windows.
Step 1. Download and install Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere.
Step 2. Launch Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere, right-click the drive letter you want to encrypt, then click "Turn On BitLocker".
Step 3. In this step, you are required to specify a password for encrypting the drive, enter the password and click "Next". You should choose a password having a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, spaces, and special symbols. Once the encryption is complete, you can access the drive using this password.
Step 4. Back up BitLocker recovery key, then click "Next" to move on. You can save the recovery key to a file or print a copy of it. Please note that anyone can use the recovery key to gain access to the drive, even if they do not know the password entered in the previous step, so please do not disclose it to others.
Step 5. Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere will now encrypt the contents of the selected drive using BitLocker. The encryption process could take a long time to finish depending on the size of the drive, so please be patient to wait. If you don't want to wait until the encryption operation is finished, "Shut down the computer when the operation is completed" option is a good idea. Just check it.
Step 6. After the encryption is complete, click the "Finish" button to close the window.
As the best TrueCrypt alternative for Windows, you can use Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere to encrypt volumes in Windows 11/10/8/7 Home & Windows 7 Pro to protect your data. In addition, you can also use it to decrypt BitLocker encrypted drives, change password for BitLocker encrypted drives, and so on.
