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This document provides instructions for encrypting and decrypting folders in Windows XP using NTFS encryption. It describes how to encrypt a folder by right clicking it, selecting properties, clicking advanced, and selecting the encrypt contents option. It also explains that encryption prevents others from opening encrypted files but not from viewing the folder contents. The document then provides steps to decrypt a folder by removing the encrypt contents selection in the properties menu.

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Main Equi Info Sheet-2

This document provides instructions for encrypting and decrypting folders in Windows XP using NTFS encryption. It describes how to encrypt a folder by right clicking it, selecting properties, clicking advanced, and selecting the encrypt contents option. It also explains that encryption prevents others from opening encrypted files but not from viewing the folder contents. The document then provides steps to decrypt a folder by removing the encrypt contents selection in the properties menu.

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INFORMATION SHEET- 2

Title:Folder/disk Encryption
How to encrypt a folder in Windows XP?
NOTE : You can encrypt files and folders only on volumes that use the NTFS file system.
1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then Windows Explorer

2. Locate and right-click the folder that you want, and then click Properties.

3. On the General tab, click Advanced.


4. Under Compress or Encrypt attributes, select the Encrypt contents to secure data
check box, and then click OK.

5. In the Confirm Attribute Changes dialog box that appears, use one of the following
steps:
5.4. If you want to encrypt only the folder, click Apply
changes to this folder only, and then click OK.
5.5. If you want to encrypt the existing folder contents along
with the folder, click Apply changes to this folder, sub folders and files,
and then click OK.

The folder becomes an encrypted folder. New files that you create in this folder are automatically
encrypted. Note that this does not prevent others from viewing the contents of the folder. This
prevents others from opening items in the encrypted folder. For example, if another user attempts to
open a Microsoft Word document that has been created in the encrypted folder, the following
message appears:

Word cannot open the document: Username does not have access privileges
(drive:\filename.doc)
How to remove file or folder encryption in Windows XP
Only the following people can decrypt an encrypted file:
1. The user who encrypted the file
2. Any user who was designated as a recovery agent before the file was encrypted
3. Any user who has the public key or private key for the recovery agent or the user who
originally encrypted the file
4. Any user who has been granted access to the file
Members of the Administrators group cannot decrypt files unless the person who encrypted the files
designated them as recovery agents before encrypting the files.
To remove encryption from a folder, follow these steps:
1. Use Windows Explorer to locate the encrypted folder that you want to decrypt.
2. Right-click the folder, and then click Properties.
3. On the General tab, click Advanced.
4. Click to clear the Encrypt contents to secure data check box, click OK, and then click
OK again.
5. When you are prompted to confirm the attribute change:
5.4. If you want to decrypt only the folder, click Apply the changes to
this folder only, and then click OK.
5.5. If you want to decrypt the folder and its subfolders and files,
click Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files, and then click
OK.

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