Truecrypt

I know, if you are anything like me, you will have ''secrets'' on your laptop/pc that you dont want other people to see. I use Truecrypt for this. It's a great programme and completely free to download. There is full instructions on how to create the volume so just take it step by step and it's fairly straightforward. You assign a certain amount of space on your hard drive for the Truecrypt volume and that space is then passworded. It has the added bonus of having an inner layer and an outer layer to it. Each can be assigned a different password. I will give you a scenario of how that might work. You have secrets you might want to keep from your significant other. So you install truecrypt and make an inner and outer volume. In the outer volume you put things that you are happy for your significant other to see so if they insist in seeing what's in it there is no problem and they never need to know the secret inner volume is there. Genius!! The scenario they give on the website explains blackmail or extortion but come on guys how many of us are at danger of that?

What's also great about this programme is you can use it to encrypt part or all of your pen drives/memory sticks so you can carry about personal information and know that even if it's stolen no one can get into it.

This programme has saved my skin a few times so I donated some money as a thankyou. Just click on Truecrypt at the top to go to the website and protect your ''secrets''