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Well, more how to do it that anything. I'm on Windows 10 Home rather than Pro, so BitLocker isn't available by default.
I ought to check the version of Windows 7 that I have for the Desktop, and see if I can reuse that, but I also need to get the data off of the desktop too.
Does Windows 7 do an ongoing check to see if the OS key has been used elsewhere?
MrDrem
Wah!
It's possible to encrypt every OS out there.
Do it.
People lose laptops, people replace them and start using new ones and never wipe the old one, all kind of things.
Full disk encryption is a default no-brainer.
It means: If anything happens, who cares... your data is safe, and your computer is a brick.
Sure, someone can replace the OS and get a computer out of it, but they can never access your data.
There's only a few things I tell everyone to do: