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hi my name's Aaron Thomas and I have got
a Lenovo tech tip for you we all use
these to store our data it's a USB stick
now one of the problems with the USB
stick is if you leave it lying around
or if you lose it anybody can get access
to your data on it so what I'm going to
show you is a quick trick that you can
do with Windows 10
called BitLocker to go what BitLocker to
go does is it basically puts an
encryption on this USB stick so that you
can only open the contents of it if you
provide a password so let me show you
how that works
first I'll plug it into my computer next
thing I'm going to do here is I'm going
to right click on the USB stick I click
on turn on BitLocker and it gets ready
to do that so what I'm going to do now
is I'm going to provide a password for
this particular USB stick which I have
to put in every time I want to connect
the USB stick to a new Windows computer
so I'll enter the password I click Next
now I can save a backup of that password
to my Microsoft account or to a file I
do it to my hotmail account means if I
forget it I can get a recovery key next
thing I turn on encryption and it goes
off and encrypts the drives and that
basically puts everything into a secret
code that's on the drive so I click Next
and it goes off and encrypts the drive
so it does that we're finished great
next thing I do is I'm just going to
take the drive out and then I am going
to go and put the drive back in and when
I put the drive back in you can see here
that the drive is saying oh I want a
password to access the drive so what I
do is I put in my password the password
goes in and then I can see my files and
folders again so that's a great way of
protecting the contents of your USB
stick so that not if you lose it or if
anybody picks it up no one key don't get
access to it anyway my name is Aaron
Thomas and that's been my Lenovo tected
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