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Features of EFS

This is an excerpt from the original Microsoft Help topic on EFS. Comprehensive help is available in the Microsoft EFS Help. To obtain the required information in Microsoft Help, minimize all currently open windows to view the Windows Desktop. Then press F1 and search for the appropriate keyword.

• Users can encrypt their files when storing them on disk. Encryption is as easy as selecting a checkbox in the file's properties dialog box.

• Accessing encrypted files is fast and easy. Users see their data in plain text when accessing the data from disk.

• Encryption of data is accomplished automatically, and is completely transparent to the user.

• Users can decrypt a file by clearing the encryption checkbox on the file's properties dialog box.

• Administrators can recover data that was encrypted by another user. This ensures that data is accessible if the user who encrypted the data is no longer available or has lost his private key.

• EFS only encrypts data when it is stored on disk. To encrypt data as it is transported over a TCP/IP network, two optional features are available - Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and PPTP encryption.

Note: EFS is not supported in Windows Home editions.

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