It is not possible because the user profile contains the EFS private key in
the application data\Microsoft\crypto folder. You can however encrypt other
folders that have data that you want to secure such as my documents folder.
FYI Windows 2000 does not have a very secure version of EFS because all an
attacker has to do is to use a password reset disk to reset the built in
administrator account password that is by default the RA and then can access
any EFS file on the computer. XP Pro fixed that vulnerability. You can
export/delete the EFS private key for your user account and RA account but
that gets to be real tedious because you need to import them again to access
EFS files. --- Steve
It is not possible because the user profile contains the EFS private key in
the application data\Microsoft\crypto folder. You can however encrypt other
folders that have data that you want to secure such as my documents folder.
FYI Windows 2000 does not have a very secure version of EFS because all an
attacker has to do is to use a password reset disk to reset the built in
administrator account password that is by default the RA and then can access
any EFS file on the computer. XP Pro fixed that vulnerability. You can
export/delete the EFS private key for your user account and RA account but
that gets to be real tedious because you need to import them again to access
EFS files. --- Steve
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