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Windows EFS and Changing a Local Account Password


From: winshel () camden rutgers edu
Date: 12 Jul 2006 18:23:12 -0000

If you are using Windows Encrypted File System (EFS) on a PC that is not part of domain, and you change the password of 
the local user account that was used to encrypt files and / or directories, will you be locked out of the ecnrypted 
files?


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