<p>I'm getting notifications to back up my encryption key for EFS in Vista, however i haven't enabled bit locker or drive encryption.</p>

<p>Anyone know how to find out what files may be encrypted or have an explanation for why it would notify me?</p>

[{'answer_id': 11709, 'author': 'Darren Kopp', 'author_id': 77, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/77', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Clippy noticed that you have sensitive information in your files and automatically encrypted them.</p>\n\n<p>Are you sure it's for EFS? I've had things prompt me to backup my keys before, but I didn't know exactly what they were to. I was assuming it was like a DRM protected file or something. It was a while ago so i don't remember exactly what the specific details were. I never backed it up and haven't been locked out of anything.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 11732, 'author': 'Brian Leahy', 'author_id': 580, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/580', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Yes it's EFS:</p>\n\n<p>[Window Title]\nEncrypting File System</p>\n\n<p>[Main Instruction]\nBack up your file encryption certificate and key</p>\n\n<p>[Content]\nCreating this backup file helps you avoid permanently losing access to your encrypted files if the original certificate and key are lost or corrupted.</p>\n\n<p>[Back up now (recommended)] [Back up later] [Never back up] [Cancel]</p>\n\n<p>[Footer]\nWhy should I backup the certificate and key?</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 232734, 'author': 'ParanoidMike', 'author_id': 452120, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/452120', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>To find out which files on your system have been encrypted with EFS, you can simply run this command:</p>\n\n<pre><code>CIPHER.EXE /U /N\n</code></pre>\n'}, {'answer_id': 688126, 'author': 'pngaz', 'author_id': 10972, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10972', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>EFS encryption is typically achieved via the "Advanced" tab of the "File Properties" dialog and it\'s best to do it at the folder-level.<br>\nBut on Vista I remember seeing this message on my new computer, definitely never having encrypted a single file.  So I AGREE it\'s confusing to ask you to back up the key, until the FIRST USE of EFS.  Windows-7 has never asked me, so probably that\'s the way it works in the future.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3620281, 'author': 'rfeague', 'author_id': 75346, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75346', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I just got this same message for the first time after using Windows 7 for many months.  Running cipher.exe as noted above revealed that a font file I downloaded (<a href="http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Anonymous Pro</a>) had the encryption attribute set (right-click the file, properties, General Tab, click Advanced).  It also had security settings granting an unknown account read and execute permissions.  (!)  I don\'t know why a font file would have the encryption flag set.</p>\n\n<p>If you just got this message out of the blue, perhaps it is in response to something you just downloaded.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4094489, 'author': 'Fabrizio Accatino', 'author_id': 21145, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21145', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I've got the same message after un-zipping DroidDraw (http://www.droiddraw.org/).\nIt's a normal (I think) zip file. Right click on it, extrat all. The resulting folder/files were encrypted. Immediatelly Win prompted me to backup EFS keys.<br>\nSame behaviour on Win Vista and Win 7.</p>\n"}]
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