Right-click to encrypt

[piaqt]

By default, you can encrypt files in two ways:

1. Use the Cipher.exe command-line utility. This command lets you encrypt files, see the encryption status, and create a new EFS recovery agent key and certificate.

2. Right-click a file or folder that you want to encrypt and select Properties. In the dialog box, click the Advanced button. You can now encrypt the file or folder by selecting the Encrypt Contents To Secure Data check box.

There's a third, more hidden way to encrypt and decrypt files: by right-clicking the file and selecting Encrypt/Decrypt from the shortcut menu.

To enable EFS options on the shortcut menu by editing the registry, Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.

Create a new DWORD Value.

Enter EncryptionContextMenu for the value name, and enter 1 for the value data.

[FthrJACK]

cool! nice tip pia, thankies

[MSNwar]

Yep, good tip Pia. We will keep you around one more day.

[piaqt]

Aw, gee. I'm overwhelmed.

[war59312]

i already have that reg key set

it does nothing it looks like i dont see any of these options anywere - not on files or folders

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