{"id":13456,"date":"2018-12-11T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2018-12-11T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:26:01","slug":"efs-add-encrypt-decrypt-to-right-click-context-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/efs-add-encrypt-decrypt-to-right-click-context-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"EFS: Add Encrypt \/ Decrypt to Right-Click Context Menu in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em>” 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.<\/p>\n

How to Add Encrypt \/ Decrypt to Right-Click Context Menu in Windows 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Registry Editor<\/a>, and navigate to the below path:
    \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced<\/code><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    \tRight-click on the Advanced<\/strong> key in the left pane and select New<\/strong> -> DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.<\/li>\n

  2. Name it as EncryptionContextMenu<\/strong>, and then double-click it to modify its value data.\n

    \"\"\n<\/li>\n

  3. Set its value data to 1 and click OK<\/strong>.\n

    \"\"\n<\/li>\n

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

    \"\"\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to remove the Encrypt<\/strong> & Decrypt<\/strong> item from your right-click context menu, just delete the EncryptionContextMenu<\/strong> entry from Windows Registry and you’re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/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":[4077,4076],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-add-encrypt-decrypt-context-menu","tag-efs-right-click-context-menu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","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=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13466,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions\/13466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}