encrypting a file or folder

[fleur4]

It just doesn't work....I try to encrypt a file in Vista Home and when I
click the advance attributes box, in Compress or encrypt datas, the little
box for Compress I can put the check mark, bur in Encrypt I can't click on
it. Somebody out there to help ???? Thanks

 

[Bruce Chambers]

It just doesn't work....I try to encrypt a file in Vista Home and when I
click the advance attributes box, in Compress or encrypt datas, the little
box for Compress I can put the check mark, bur in Encrypt I can't click on
it. Somebody out there to help ???? Thanks

From Microsoft's voluminous information about Vista:

EFS is not fully supported on Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home
Basic, and Windows Vista Home Premium. For those editions of Windows, if
you have the encryption key or certificate, you can do the following:

• Decrypt files by running Cipher.exe in the Command Prompt window
(advanced users)

• Modify an encrypted file

• Copy an encrypted file as decrypted to a hard disk on your computer

• Import EFS certificates and keys

• Back up EFS certificates and keys by running Cipher.exe in the
Command prompt window (advanced users)

As you can see from the list of capabilities above, it is not possible
to actually encrypt a file using any of the Vista Home editions. To
gain the capability, you'd have to upgrade to either Vista Business or
Vista Ultimate.


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

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killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Bob]

Encryption is not a part of Home Premium. If you use MS Office or the free
OpenOffice www.openoffice.org you can paswword protect a file.