Re: Help Help Help Please !

From: Juan (soyquiensoy_at_terra.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 02:34:00 -0700

Greetings:

Get instructions from Microsoft to Share the folder to your new profile and
take
Ownership from that profile.

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp
(308421) - Describes how to take ownership of files or folders that you may
not have permissions for if you are an administrator for that computer.

HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and
Folders in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308419&Product=winxp
308419) - In Windows XP, you can apply special access permissions to files
or folders that are located on NTFS file system volumes. Special access
permissions are customizable sets of permissions. This article describes how
to set, view, change, or remove...

THIS MAY BE YOUR BEST OPTION.
A User Who Has Permissions to Change the Folder Atributes can now
Change the Folder Encryption Atribute. (for Windows 2000 and XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821737&Product=winxp
821737) - In Microsoft Windows, the Windows shell (Explorer.exe) handles the
encryption attribute of a folder. This article describes the differences
between the way that Microsoft Windows 2000 handles the encryption attribute
of a folder and the way that...

HOW TO: Remove File Encryption in Windows XP.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308993&Product=winxp
308993) - This article describes how to decrypt a file that been encrypted
by using Encrypting File System (EFS) in Windows XP. Encryption is the
process of converting data into a format that cannot be read by others. You
can use EFS to automatically encrypt...

Encrypting File System in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/cryptfs.mspx

Best Practices for The Encryption of File System
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223316&Product=winxp
223316) - Windows includes the ability to encrypt data directly on volumes
that use the NTFS file system so that no other user can use the data. You
can encrypt files and folders if you set an attribute in the object's
Properties dialog box. Because the...

Hope this helps.

---------------Original Message------------
"Malek" <vivasy@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:1b16301c44f7a$866b4d40$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I was running windows 2003 server as domain controller
> and i have some files on drive D: that i encrypted ...
>
> i had to remove the Windows 2003 server but i forgot to
> decrypt the files .. now i'm running windows xp pro.
> somebody please tell me how can i decrypt these file !
>
> please please somebody tell me .
>
> Best regards,
> Malek

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