winXP Professional-Encrypting and decrypting files easily through the context menu

The NTFS file system allows users to encrypt files. However, to enable that, you need to first open the file properties, click on 'Advanced' and then activate the corresponding option. This process can be complicated and time-consuming. Is there any way to easily encrypt and decrypt files?

Create a context menu command for this function. This is how it works: Open the Registry editor by clicking 'Start | Run...' and navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced' in the tree structure on the left. Then right-click the empty background on the right side of the window, create an entry named 'EncryptionContextMenu', click on the command 'New | DWORD value', and then open it with a double-click. You have to set the 'Value' to '1'.
After you have closed the editor, the context menu for files and folders contains the new command 'Encrypt' or 'Decrypt'. If you click on an already encrypted object, as soon as you call 'Encrypt', the 'Confirm changed attributes' dialog opens. With this, you can confirm whether Windows should encrypt only the current folder or even the subfolders and the files in them. If you have selected the command in a file's context menu, an 'Encryption warning' dialog will appear. You can now decide whether the operating system should encrypt only the file concerned or the entire folder. While calling the 'Encrypt' command from a folder's context menu, the 'Confirm changed attributes' dialog appears. However, if you open 'Decrypt' from the context menu of a file, Windows spares you the trouble of dealing with this dialog box. Encrypted data is no longer accessible from other accounts. If you ever need to remove the 'Encrypt' or 'Decrypt' commands from the context menu, set the Registry value 'EncryptionContextMenu' to '0' or simply delete it.


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Windows Vista:-Configuring the system without irritating warnings

After a fresh Windows installation, anyone would want to change some of the default settings. But Vista's User Account Control constantly pops up warnings and each action you perform has to be confirmed twice.

You can temporarily switch off User Account Control to configure the system and avoid the irritating warning messages that keep appearing, but you should make sure you reactivate it when you're done so your system isn't permenantly at risk.
There are two ways to switch it off. The first is to double-click 'User Accounts' in the Control Panel and then click 'Switch on or switch off User Account Control'. Unfortunately, since UAC is active, it will pop up more windows to warn you that important system settings are being changed. Confirm this by clicking 'Next'. Then deactivate the 'Use User Account Control to contribute to the protection of the computer' and confirm that as well. Now, restart your computer which the next dialog box will allow you to do.
The other method is to turn UAC off or on through the 'msconfig' configuration program. To do that, run 'msconfig' from the Start menu's 'Run...' command. Switch to the 'Tools' tab, select 'Disable UAC' and click 'Launch'. You will have to restart the system with this method also.
NOTE: User Account Control increases system security and helps prevent malicious software installations or changes to important system settings. If you switch off this function, even the safe mode of the Internet Explorer will stop working

Win2000,XP,Vista:-Using your registry favorites on another PC as well

Windows saves the favorites directly in the registry. So all you have to do is export the relevant branch in an REG file and import it to the target computer to use the bookmarks on it. This is how it works. In the registry editor, open the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit\Favorites' key. All the entries of the favorites' menus are listed here. Select the key and open the 'Registration | Export registration file' or 'File|Export'.
In the next step, assign a name, for example: Regedit-Favorites. Select the option 'Selected branch' and the path selected there and click on the 'Save' button. Now you need to copy this file to the other computer.
On the other computer, double-click on this file to view the favorites. Accept them in the registry by clicking 'Yes'.