Re: What _does_ EFS stand for?

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 12/06/02 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:52:33 -0700

"Chris Perigo" <chrisperigo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:095001c29c52$b049e7c0$d3f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA10...
> One last question:-
>
> Copies of _some_ of the data files affected by this
> disaster had been transported by yours truly to a laptop
> machine running Win XP Home with an NTFS file system.
> Those files are still accessible in the laptop.
>
> Are those files still encrypted? Would the required key
> be available therefore from that machine?
>
> My inclination is that this would not help because the
> files appear to have been decrypted automatically in the
> copy to the briefcase on the new machine.
>
> In fact if I create a new file on the new XP Home machine
> and attempt to encrypt it the encrypt option is greyed
> out which causes me to conclude that encrytion is
> unavailable in XP Home. Is this correct?
>
> Cheers (again),
>
> Chris Perigo

What in the world are we talking about now !?
If you have them decrypted
> files appear to have been decrypted automatically in the
then what is the issue ?

XP Home does not do EFS, only XP Pro has this. 

--
Roger

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