Re: EFS recovery agent

From: Steven Umbach (n9rou_at_n0spam-comcast.net)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:22:43 GMT

If you reinstalled your operating system or reset your user password instead on
changing it via ctrl-alt-delete, that can cause lost access. If you did reset
your password, changing it back to what it was before the reset may restore
access to your EFS files. --- Steve

"pravin" <pra33vin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:15cc401c4169a$bd025d80$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Unable to unencrypt EFS file, even though I am logged as
> a same person who encrypted the file. Now I get the error
> message "access is denied".
>
> Does anyone has any idea?

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