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- How to use veracrypt portable driver#
- How to use veracrypt portable software#
- How to use veracrypt portable password#
Note: It is recommended that you create a backup of important data on the device before you use VeraCrypt to encrypt it.
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While you may select any supported encryption algorithm when you create new containers or encrypt volumes on the system, it is often best when you select a fast algorithm as it will speed up operations significantly. That's useful as it highlights which algorithms offer the best performance. VeraCrypt includes a tool to benchmark all supported encryption algorithms.
How to use veracrypt portable driver#
Settings > Performance and Driver Options - Find out if AES hardware acceleration is supported, allow certain performance or driver related tasks such as TRIM or Defrag.Settings > System Favorite Volumes - Add volumes to the favorites.to skip the pre-boot authentication prompt by pressing the Esc-key. Settings > System Encryption - Options that apply when you encrypt the system drive e.g.Settings > Hot Keys - configure system-wide hot keys to run certain operations such as dismounting all or wiping the cache.Settings > Language - change the interface language.Here is a quick overview of other settings pages in VeraCrypt:
How to use veracrypt portable password#
Options include forcing VeraCrypt to wipe the cached password on exit (VeraCrypt does to automatically on dismount), or cache passwords in the driver's memory.
How to use veracrypt portable software#
You can disable that here, configure VeraCrypt to exit when there are no mounted volumes or force the software to mount all device hosted VeraCrypt volumes automatically.
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Select Settings > Preferences to open the general preferences. The very first thing you may want to do is go through all settings and some other steps to make sure everything is set up correctly.