Re: Cipher.exe works but not the GUI interface ?!?

From: Frances Carlsen (fcarlsen@sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/25/03


From: "Frances Carlsen" <fcarlsen@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:09:02 -0500


For one your attachment is not in English.

Fran

"Olivier R." <olivier@revenu.nom.fr> wrote in message
news:3e310ebe$0$11279$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I don't understand why I can't encrypt files on a windows 2000 Pro SP3.
The
> option is simply gray like shown on the attached gif. Tested on multiple
> NTFS hard drive in a standalone environnement or member of a domain. This
> problem only appears on one Windows 2000, the other in the same
> environnement have no problem.
>
> I try the command line tool cipher.exe and I was able to encrypt and
decrypt
> files or folders, so all is working, the problem came just from the GUI
> interface : option in advanced field stays gray, like shown on the
> screenshot.
>
> To my knowledge, I don't know how to do that on windows 2000 SP3, even
with
> a group policy, maybe a registry tweak or a missing file.
>
> Thanks for your help !
>
> Olivier R.
>
>
>

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