Win10 right-click menu to add encrypted file system options

The Win10 system has an encryption file system function that encrypts files or folders. Only encrypted passwords can be used to access files. Using this function, you usually need to open the properties of the file, check the encrypted content to protect the data, and it is more troublesome to operate. Let's take a look at a way to add encrypted file system options to the Win10 context menu.

The reference steps are as follows:

1. Press Win+R to open the run, enter regedit and press Enter to open the registry editor;

2. Navigating the following location

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced

3. Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named EncryptionContextMenu on the right side and set its value to 1, as shown in the following figure. :

No need to restart or log out, right click on any file or folder and you will see the "Encrypt" menu. For files that have already been encrypted, it will be displayed as “decrypted”. You can encrypt/decrypt files very quickly.

Finally, if you want to cancel this menu, just delete the created EncryptionContextMenu key.

The above is the Win10 right-click menu to add the encryption file system option, you can see the Open with Code option from the figure, so you can directly open the encrypted file system function to set the password for the file.