All the information that we have stored in the personal computer with Windows must be well guarded so that no one else can review it. Privacy is one of the most important aspects that everyone wants to strengthen, and should therefore try to adopt a few measures so that our data cannot be seen by anyone other than us.
Advantageously, there are a few tools that we could be using to strengthen this security and privacy of our Windows computer, This being the task that we will dedicate some time to in this article. In order to carry it out, we will propose to use a free application to run on any version of Windows and also, to a USB flash drive, which can have any capacity that you want and even, the one you were thinking right due to the little storage space it has.
Download and run USB Raptor on Windows
As we mentioned before, this tool's name USB Raptor can be run in any version of Windows, because according to the developer can be used from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in its previous version. The recommendation that we gave in the previous paragraph is due to the fact that the file that will be generated thanks to this tool has an extremely light weight, and it is not necessary to use a large capacity USB pendrive. Despite being something unusual, but if in your hands you have a USB stick of about 100 or 200 MB, this would be the one to use as a security key on our Windows computer.
Once you run the tool you will have to go to the tab that says "Unlock file settings", where is the preliminary configuration that you must handle once insert the USB flash drive into the port of your Windows computer. There you have a few fields to fill in, these being:
- Password. Here you will have to enter the password that will be used to unlock the Windows computer. Because it is recommended use a strong and secure password, the user should activate the box that will allow to display each of the characters that will be part of this password.
- k3y file. This is a small file that will have to be generated on the USB flash drive. As you have inserted this device in one of the points of your Windows computer, you have to define the number of the unit in which it is located later to use this button. A file with an extremely light weight is the one that will be generated inside and the one that will have to be recognized by this application to block or unblock the Windows computer.
Basically these are the two most important fields that you must handle within USB Raptor, with which you will practically be configuring your Windows computer to respond automatically, every time it finds your USB pendrive with the encryption file inside.
How does USB Raptor work with our USB pendrive inserted in the computer?
This is the most interesting part of this whole process, as the tool will detect the USB pendrive that we have configured through the previous steps and will try to find the encryption file to block or unlock the Windows computer. If the USB flash drive is inserted into the port, the Windows computer will be unlocked, which will change state (to locked) when the USB flash drive is removed from the port.
It is easy to decipher what has happened with this situation, because the application will read the file when the USB flash drive is present; If this file is damaged, deleted or simply not present because it has been extracted to the USB stick, lThe tool will automatically lock the Windows computer.
Advanced USB Raptor Options in Windows
We have provided only certain configuration and user usage features for the user by this tool, which also offers a few advanced options to use. For example, you can order the tool to to act every time Windows starts, thereby avoiding having to double-click on USB Raptor every time we want the tool to be activated.
The only drawback that could arise is in the continuous activity that this USB pendrive would have to perform; the same tI would have to be permanently connected to the computer If we want Windows to be unlocked, something that can be annoying if we only have a few USB ports and they must be used for other different accessories (such as a printer, the webcam or any other additional device).