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mahmood
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      5th May 2008
Hi every body
I have encripted my personal folder in my personal user. Unfortunatly i had
forgotten the password. So that i had reset my password using admin user.
After that i could not open my folder. Please give idea to open all my folder
in OS WinXP
 
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Shenan Stanley
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      5th May 2008
mahmood wrote:
> I have encripted my personal folder in my personal user.
> Unfortunatly i had forgotten the password. So that i had reset my
> password using admin user. After that i could not open my folder.
> Please give idea to open all my folder in OS WinXP


Did you follow best practices for the Encrypted File System - or just wing
it?
If the latter - likely all your files are gone to you.

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      6th May 2008


mahmood wrote:
> Hi every body
> I have encripted my personal folder in my personal user. Unfortunatly
> i had forgotten the password. So that i had reset my password using
> admin user. After that i could not open my folder. Please give idea
> to open all my folder in OS WinXP


These links may help:-

How to remove file or folder encryption in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308993/en-us

The Encrypting File System
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...hyetc/efs.mspx

Best practices for the Encrypting File System
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316/en-us


 
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      6th May 2008
"mahmood" wrote in
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> I have encripted my personal folder in my personal user. Unfortunatly
> i had forgotten the password. So that i had reset my password using
> admin user. After that i could not open my folder. Please give idea
> to open all my folder in OS WinXP


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890951/en-us
 
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