Disable EFS on Windows XP using EfsConfiguration registry key

Friday, November 13, 2009 Leave a Comment

To disable Encrypting File System feature on a System, administrators can run the below command from command prompt.

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\EFS" /v EfsConfiguration /t REG_DWORD /d  1 /f       



This works on Windows XP and Windows 2003. It does not seem to be working on Windows7, looks liks EFS registry keys are changed in Win7.

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