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XP native encryption


From: "Fernando Serto" <fernando.serto () memetrics com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:28:37 +1000

guys, I have a problem here where one of the users has encrypted all her documents on her laptop, and as requested, she 
had administrative rights. She had a friend playing around with her laptop during the weekend, and I have no idea why 
that guy went through the user accounts, changed the administrator password, logged in as local administrator, DELETED 
the user account, RECREATED it, and changed the password back to what it was. I think the user was too embarressed to 
tell me why this guy had her password, and why he was playing around with her laptop, but anyway, now she can't access 
her files, because they are encrypted.

do you know anyway to decrypt those files, in order to reencrypt using the new username?

cheers,
Fernando

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