WIN7 - Bitlocker or something like that? advise views

[_Jimlad_]

Ok i have win7 pro on both my pc and laptop and feel the need to encrypt a few folders, i have and also my USB drive after recently losing one with sensitive data on.

My situation is as follows... i have a spare copy of win7 ultimate that i got from my training i did last month

i could upgrade one of my pc's and then have bit locker which i could use on the files and usb drive, the other pc would then be able to use bitlocker too as apparently the description feature is install on all vista/win7 ??

other option, sell my copy of win7 ultmate and use some free proggy that someone on here might recommend.

... final thought, if i stick my Win7 ultimate disc in my pc that runs win7 pro will it let me just upgrade or will it over right settings and drivers? as i had trouble with my shuttle drivers

 

[_Jimlad_]

fantastic, so in theory i could enter my win7 ult key. Then when i upgrade to a new pc next year i could degrade my current pc back to win7 pro using the existing key and then install ultimate on my new pc?

both pro and ultimate are full retail. then only reason i have not used ultimate is because i thought i would save it until my new pc.

how does that sound?

 

[_Jimlad_]

cross that bridge when i come to it i guess, but tonight i will try the anything upgrade and get bitlocker going, i hear it's good and then hopefully i will be able to encrypt my certain data and some files.