Windows 10: Veracrypt alongside "device encryption?"

Hi everyone, I just got a new laptop running Windows 10 Home and I'm going through all the steps to secure my device and set everything up. I was planning on using VeraCrypt for drive encryption, but noticed that "Device Encryption" is already enabled. I didn't really know what this was, since I was used to BitLocker with W10 Pro, and, well, I still don't. Is it worth it to go ahead with VeraCrypt or do I not need to bother since I have "Device Encryption" already enabled?



Edit: I have another question: should I have both an admin and standard account, or is this outdated advice given that we have UAC?

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Encryption - VeraCrypt is it trustworthy and effective?

Ciao JeffBender1,

I'm Ugo, a Microsoft Independent Advisor willing to help other Microsoft customers.

Regarding your question, VeraCrypt is an Open Source project, forked from the very famous TrueCrypt (now abandoned), that is very reliable and solves some issues that were in TrueCrypt.

Even I personally use (and trust) VeraCrypt, you can find more information here:

VeraCrypt - Wikipedia

https://lifehacker.com/windows-encryption-showd...

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Please let me know if this helped somehow.

Ciao

Ugo

 

Encryption - VeraCrypt is it trustworthy and effective?

Since Microsoft understands that upselling drives revenue but not customer satisfaction - I'm looking for an encryption option as bitlocker isn't included with my Windows 10 Home version.

Does VeraCrypt work well?

Are there significant downsides? i.e. They have access to information, etc.

Thanks

 

Encryption - VeraCrypt is it trustworthy and effective?

VeraCrypt is one among many free third party disk encryption tools that are recommended if you don't want to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for BitLocker.

Before VeraCrypt, I use use to recommend the defunct TrueCrypt, which worked well and that legacy continues with VeraCrypt of being a solid alternative.

There are others that have also be forked from TrueCrypt you can also consider:

https://securitygladiators.com/truecrypt-gone-b...

As with all encryption tools, do be careful before implementing. Have a backup before you start using it.

How to: Create a system image in Windows 10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

Always decrypt and suspend encryption before performing feature updates to new version of Windows. This something you are gonna regularly do when it comes to Windows 10. We have seen cases where customers didn't suspend encryption and lost access to their data.