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How can I disable the Encrypting File System (EFS) on a Windows 2000 or later machine?
John Savill
August 11, 2002
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A. To disable EFS, perform the following steps:
Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionEFS subkey.
From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
Enter a name of EfsConfiguration and press Enter.
Double-click the new value, set it to 1 to disable EFS, then click OK.
Close the registry editor.
Reboot the machine.
This change will affect all users: When users try to encrypt a file, they'll receive an error. You can set the registry value to 0 to enable EFS, but this value doesn't exist by default.
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