{"id":19084,"date":"2022-10-10T11:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=19084"},"modified":"2022-10-10T11:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:42:44","slug":"change-file-sharing-encryption-level-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-file-sharing-encryption-level-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Methods to Change File Sharing Encryption Level in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

By default, Windows 11 uses 128-bit encryption to help protect file sharing connections, which is more secure than 40- or 56-bit encryption. If you need to share files between your PC and an old PC or MacBook which still uses 40- or 56-bit encryption, it’s necessary to adjust the encryption level and make them match each other. In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 methods to change file sharing encryption level in Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Change File Sharing Encryption Level via Settings App<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows + I keys to bring up the Settings app<\/a>. In the left sidebar, choose Network & internet<\/strong>. Next, click Advanced network settings<\/strong> on the right.\n

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  2. Under the “More settings” section, click the “Advanced sharing settings<\/strong>” option.\n

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  3. Expand the “All networks” section, you’ll see the “File sharing connections” drop-down menu. From there, you can choose to use 128-bit encryption (Recommended)<\/strong> or 40- or 56-bit encryption<\/strong>.\n

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    Method 2: Change File Sharing Encryption Level via Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Lsa\\MSV1_0<\/code>. In the right pane, you should see two DWORD entries: NtlmMinClientSec<\/strong>, NtlmMinServerSec<\/strong>. We need to change their value data.\n

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    2. Double-click each of them and change their value data to 0 for using 40- or 56-bit encryption, or set their value data to 20000000 (in Hexadecimal) for using 128-bit encryption.\n

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    3. Close Registry Editor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Method 3: Change File Sharing Encryption Level via Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Open Control Panel<\/a> in Large icons<\/strong> view, click on the Network and Sharing Center<\/strong> category.\n

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      2. Click the “Change advanced sharing settings<\/strong>” link in the left side pane.\n

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      3. Expand the “All Networks” section. Under File sharing connections, you can then choose “Use 128-bit encryption to help protect file sharing connections<\/strong>” or “Enable file sharing for devices that use 40- or 56-bit encryption<\/strong>“.\n

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      4. Click on the “Save changes<\/strong>” button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        By default, Windows 11 uses 128-bit encryption to help protect file sharing connections, which is more secure than 40- or 56-bit encryption. If you need to share files between your PC and an old PC or MacBook which still uses 40- or 56-bit encryption, it’s necessary to adjust the encryption level and make them match […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[5035,5036],"class_list":["post-19084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-change-file-sharing-encryption-level-windows","tag-file-sharing-connections-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084","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=19084"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19102,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084\/revisions\/19102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}