{"id":13410,"date":"2018-12-04T04:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2018-12-04T04:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T04:26:41","slug":"stop-efs-from-encrypting-all-new-files-on-windows-10-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/stop-efs-from-encrypting-all-new-files-on-windows-10-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop EFS from Encrypting All New Files on Windows 10 Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any new files made on the desktop were being automatically encrypted? Unable to disable EFS for the desktop folder? Recently I also ran into this issue and every time I create a new file and save it to my desktop, a gold padlock icon appears on it. When I tried to turn off EFS, and it gave the error message &#8220;<em>The specified file could not be decrypted<\/em>&#8220;. Eventually I found 2 methods to stop EFS from encrypting all new files on the desktop in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/efs-encrypts-new-files-automatically.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13414\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Using the File Ownership Context Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open File Explorer and browse to your user profile folder <em>C:\\Users\\user_name<\/em>. You should see gold padlock icon over the desktop item. Just right-click it and select <strong>File ownership<\/strong> -> <strong>Personal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/efs-file-ownership.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"502\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That will turn off EFS encryption for your desktop immediately. Now, any new files dropped or created in the desktop should not encrypt automatically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Disable EFS Using Another Admin Account<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another solution is to log in to Windows with another administrative account. Right-click on the Desktop folder and select <strong>Properties<\/strong>. Go to the General tab and click <strong>Advanced<\/strong>. Untick that option &#8220;<strong>Encrypt contents to secure data<\/strong>&#8221; and click OK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/encrypt-contents-to-secure-data.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any new files made on the desktop were being automatically encrypted? Unable to disable EFS for the desktop folder? Recently I also ran into this issue and every time I create a new file and save it to my desktop, a gold padlock icon appears on it. When I tried to turn off EFS, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4069,4070,4068],"class_list":["post-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-desktop-encrypt-new-files-automatically","tag-disable-efs-encryption","tag-efs-encrypt-new-files-automatically"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13417,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions\/13417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}