ENCRYPT YOUR FILES
Encrypting is one of the best ways to keep your stuff from being viewed by others. This feature is essential when you have too delicate files to be kept secret.
NTFS provides a feature of encrypting your files in professional, enterprise and ultimate versions of windows 7.
To encrypt, follow the following steps,
Right click the folder you want to encrypt and select the properties.
- Then on general tab, click on the advanced button.
- Now enable the ‘Encrypt to secure data’ option and apply the changes.
Now the encrypted folder name is shown with green colour text. Don’t forget to keep file encryption key backed up.
But if you login through the same account and try opening the file, you’ll be astonished to see that it opens without intervening for password. This is because it prompts for password or anything else only if other user through their account tries to open it..!
It can be opened when tried from the same account through which it was encrypted, but others aren’t allowed even if other user too has an account with the same user name and password.
While you encrypt, windows will show a message at the right bottom corner to back-up your file encryption key, don’t forget to click that.
If you fail to do so then follow these few steps,
Click on ‘start menu’ and type ‘certmgr.msc’ in search box. A new certificate window pops-up, expand the ‘personal’ folder on the left pane and then open the certificate folder. Then you’ll find your certificate resting, double clicking which opens certificate properties and on ‘details’ click the ‘copy to file’ button. There you have your key (FES).
When you copy or move an encrypted file from NTFS to FAT32 drive, windows automatically decrypts it.
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