Re: EFS Nightmare

From: Roger Abell (MVPNoSpam@asu.edu)
Date: 02/21/03 

From: Roger Abell <MVPNoSpam@asu.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:56:31 -0800

"Bill Peedle" <bpeedle@peedle.com> wrote in news:013901c2d914$6c0119e0
$a301280a@phx.gbl:

> Hello, everyone. Here is a question that I would like to
> pose. I have been using EFS with Windows XP now for a few
> months. It has been working great until yesterday. I
> followed all of Microsofts rules when using EFS, and I
> have a copy of my recovery certificate exported and in a
> safe place. Yesterday, I changed my password (this is the
> only thing that I can think of) and later in the evening
> rebooted my PC. Now I can not access some of my encrypted
> files (some of them I can still access). So, as Microsoft
> suggested, I reimported my recovery key, and I still
> cannot access many of my files. My user id has not
> changed. Any ideas?
>

Have you tried changing back you password ?
If the account was an admin there are two ways to
change the password, one should keep EFS access and
the other should break it. 

-- 
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Windows Security)

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