TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by A_Non_eMouse on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:46PM (#7813955)

But, being a 16-bit program, it won't run on 64-bit windows. I'm not even sure it would install properly on anything newer than XP. I haven't tried installing it since the 9x days.

There are several things MS has released that don't install on newer systems very well. There are some where the installer depends on an old version of Internet Explorer being installed and which fail miserably on newer versions.

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by jlawer on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:48PM (#7814192)

Its a boot loader, It runs while the system is in real mode (16bit), before windows itself has booted.

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by taspeotis on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:49PM (#7814442)

The compiler is 16-bit [1]. It won't run on 64-bit Windows.

So if you have a Windows-based build server, it's probably running Windows Server 2008 or later. Which is 64-bit only.

You can run it on a recent 32-bit version of Windows, but client editions only.

And in the next year or two I imagine Windows 9 or 10 going exclusively x64/ARM.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by A_Non_eMouse on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:21PM (#7814516)

I meant MSVC 1.52c is 16-bit.

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by Canada on Friday May 30, 2014 @04:22PM (#7823821)

I build my own TrueCrypt binaries on my 64bit Windows 7 box.

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