Encrypting files or folders in Vista

To encrypt files or folders in Windows Vista, follow the steps below:
1. Locate the files/folders to be protected in the Explorer, right click and select " Attributes;
2, click the "Advanced" button in the "General" tab page
3, check the "Encrypt content to protect data" item in the advanced properties, click "OK"

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4. Click “OK” in the returned “General” tab page. The system will ask for further settings according to the encryption file and folder. For example, when encrypting a folder, ask if it is applied to it. Subfolders and files; when encrypting files, they will ask whether to encrypt the parent folder of the file, etc., and select the corresponding options according to specific needs;

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In this way, the encryption is completed.
5, in the Explorer you can see the encrypted file /folder is displayed in green, view the "details" of its encryption properties, you can see that in our example, the file now only allows the user "HighDiy" access.

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It should be noted that file encryption (EFS) can only be used on the hard disk of the NTFS file system. At the same time, encryption and NTFS compression cannot be used at the same time, that is to say For a specific file, if you use file compression, you cannot encrypt it.
In addition, it must be clear that the Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Premium versions do not fully support EFS and can only implement some functions.