Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

How to Encrypt any File, Folder, or Drive on Your System Trust us, it’s safer this way. Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images ...

Ever download a folder full of files, only to notice all of the documents inside are zipped shut and encrypted—basically the digital version of Fort Knox? These are examples of the ever ...

Whether you use Windows Pro's built-in Bitlocker or the free Veracrypt utility, encrypting a file, folder, or drive is an easy way to keep your sensitive documents secure.

Learn how to add a Password to zip files. Using free 7-Zip, you can encrypt & easily add a Password to zipped, archived & compressed files.

When you are done, don’t forget to unmount the encrypted folder to be protected again. On Windows In contrast to Mac operating system, Windows lacks features to encrypt or password protect files.

Express Zip free file compression for Windows lets you open & extract archive formats like zip, rar, cab, tar, 7z, iso, gzip, multidisk, zipx, lzh, arj & more.

Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files.

Zip is still a thing to compress files to save space or share content with others over the internet, and here's how to use the feature on Windows 11.