HOW TO ADD THE ENCRYPT/DECRYPT OPTION TO FILES AND FOLDRES

HOW TO ADD THE ENCRYPT/DECRYPT OPTION TO FILES AND FOLDERS

It would be great if you could encrypt your files easily and quickly by simply right click on them? To protect your files.There is a simple registry trick to do that allows you to add the Encrypt/Decrypt option.All you need to do is:

STEP 1: Open the Windows Registry

STEP 2: Browse for the following Registry Key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

STEP 3: In the right pane, create a new DWORD value called EncryptionContextMenu and give it a data value of 1.

STEP 4: Now, whenever you right click on any file of folder you will automatically see the Encrypt option show up in the context menu. Select it and follow instruction on the screen to encrypt the file.

STEP 5: Once the file has been Encrypted, you will notice that the name of the file appears in green colour. Now when you right click on the Encrypted file, you will notice that you are shown the Decrypt option which allows you to Decrypt the file.

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