Encrypt Documents and Settings?

[281 cu. in.]

If I was to encrypt documents and settings folder and everything that's
inside; a) Is there any reprocations to be aware of? b) What are the effects
of doing this, performance wise, and OTHER wise?


Alex

 

[Steven L Umbach]

There is overhead in using EFS. It makes sense to only encrypt those
folders that need to be secured because of sensitive information. Your my
documents folder may be a good candidate for EFS. You probably would have a
problem trying to encrypt your whole profile since your EFS private key is
stored in your profile. -- Steve

 

[David Cross [MS]]

You can encrypt things like My Docs, but not the whole profile itself -
since this is where the key for EFS lives. You will get into a chicken or
egg scenario where the profile will no longer load.