efs right click context menu – Password Recovery https://www.top-password.com/blog Provide useful password recovery tricks, guides and software Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:26:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 EFS: Add Encrypt / Decrypt to Right-Click Context Menu in Windows 10 https://www.top-password.com/blog/efs-add-encrypt-decrypt-to-right-click-context-menu/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:24:24 +0000 https://www.top-password.com/blog/?p=13456 In order to encrypt a file with EFS, you have to go through the file’s advanced properties and check the “Encrypt contents to secure data” option. In this tutorial we’ll show you a tip to add Encrypt / Decrypt to right-click context menu in Windows 10, which will simplify the process of EFS encryption and decryption.

How to Add Encrypt / Decrypt to Right-Click Context Menu in Windows 10

  1. Open Registry Editor, and navigate to the below path:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

    Right-click on the Advanced key in the left pane and select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value.

  2. Name it as EncryptionContextMenu, and then double-click it to modify its value data.

  3. Set its value data to 1 and click OK.

  4. Close Registry Editor and restart your PC. You can encrypt any file by selecting Encrypt option from context menu, or right-click EFS encrypted file and select Decrypt to decrypt it.

If you want to remove the Encrypt & Decrypt item from your right-click context menu, just delete the EncryptionContextMenu entry from Windows Registry and you’re done.

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