How to Encrypt Files & Folders on Windows?
Microsoft Office Suite provides us a very simple and easiest way of keeping our all files and folders on our windows computer, as it gives us a built-in encryption feature for creating a password for protecting all Office files, such as Word documents or some PowerPoint’s presentations. However, some Windows operating systems also come with the Encrypting File System (EFS), which allows their users to encrypt any kind of file, folders or any subfolders. Although, the EFS is available only for Windows 10 Pro, Windows 7 Professionals, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 8 Pro or Windows 8 Enterprise. Users with a Home edition of the Windows will always need to use either Office Suite encryption or any other third party solution, such as TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt or 7-Zip. What is Encrypting File System (EFS) The EFS is the Windows built-in encryption tool which is usually used to encrypt files and folders on NTFS drives. Any app or individual which doesn’t have any ke...