How best to secure laptop?

[On Holiday]

 

[Rroff]

BitLocker should provide adequate protection from someone just mounting the drive in another system - but Windows accounts are relatively easy to break into if someone is determined if they have the whole system.

 

[sideways14a]

Bitlocker for encryption or use cloud services instead.

 

[pcfarrar]

You could set a boot up password in the BIOS as well. That combined with bitlocker is going to stop most random thieves from doing anything with it.