Encrypting File System (EFS) is an encryption service found in Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education. A cousin to BitLocker, which can encrypt entire drives at once, EFS lets you encrypt ...

How to Recover EFS Encrypted Files. While some businesses rely on computers more than others, most value the data they store on the machines and may consider at least some of it private or ...

Microsoft Windows features the native ability to encrypt files and folders on your hard drives and removable media using its Encrypting File System.

EFS: Handle with Care The Encrypting File System, while serving a need, can also cause big headaches—especially with the XP implementation. Here’s how to do it right. By Bill Boswell 03/01/2002 ...

EFS: Handle with Care The Encrypting File System, while serving a need, can also cause big headaches—especially with the XP implementation. Here’s how to do it right. By Bill Boswell 03/01/2002 Most ...

I don’t like Windows’ Encrypted File System (EFS), and Jeff’s story illustrates why. Although EFS provides what appears to be a convenient, completely transparent form of encryption, it can ...

You can effectively encrypt a folder with Windows’ own Encrypted File System (EFS)—at least if you have something more expensive than a Home edition of Windows.