HP Client Security Commercial Managed IT Software
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Color
Message
Can be dismissed? 
Yes/No
Action 
•  Upon clicking on the “Requires 
Attention button”, the administrator 
will be redirected to the HPCS Drive 
Encryption Activation page. 
Yellow 
Your drive is currently being 
encrypted. When completed, your 
data will be protected with encryption. 
Yes No action 
Yellow 
Your drive is currently being 
decrypted. 
Yes No action 
Yellow  Your drive is managed. HP Client 
Security cannot manage this drive. 
Yes  Notification appears when the drive is 
already encrypted and managed by 3
rd
party software 
No action 
Yellow  One of your drives is not encrypted.  Yes  •  This is only applicable for non-OS 
partition(s) and/or external drive. 
•  Administrator will be redirected to  
HPCS Drive Encryption Activation 
page. 
No color  Your data is protected with 
encryption. 
Yes  •  If the only drive is the OS partition 
and if it is encrypted, it will show this 
notification. 
•  If there is more than one drives 
(either user created partition and/or 
external drive attached) and if they 
are all encrypted, it will show this 
notification. 
No action 
Technical Details 
  Usage 
o  Windows Administrator user 
  Can configure HPDE policy. 
  Can activate and de-activate drive encryption. 
  Can backup and restore the encryption key. 
o  Windows standard user 
  Cannot configure HPDE policy. 
  Can view the status of the drive. (i.e. if a drive is encrypted or not) 
  Can backup and restore the encryption key. 
  Pre-requisites 
o  HP Client Security: Version 8.2.x must be installed first 
o  2008 VC ++ version 9.0.30729.6161 Redistributables 
o  Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 
  Supported OS’s 
o  Windows 7 (32-bit and 64 bit) 
o  Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit) 










