Sunday, December 09, 2007

Add Encrypt/Decrypt In Vista Right Click Menu

I encrypt files all the time so having a encrypt/decrypt option on the right-click menu is very handy. To add this option to the right click menu in Vista, begin by starting Regedit.exe and then browsing to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Now, in the right side panel click on a blank space, right-click and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it EncryptionContextMenu. Next, right-click the new key and choose Modify. Finally, change the value data to 1 and click OK. Now when you right click on a file or folder you will see the encrypt/decrypt menu option.

1 comments:

Jonathan said...

Hey Conrad, not sure if you remember me, but I figure you do, it hasn't been ALL that long, ^^... It's Jonathan, from school.... needed some help with some tech stuff, just some batch files, I just got vista, not used to the changes in Command Prompt yet.... um.... yeah! uh.... dunno how I can get a hold of you.... if you could email me at.... >< I don't want to put my e-mail here..... I'll code it... you should know how to decipher it, but then again, so could anyone... I just wanna be as safe as possible w/out taking too long to hear from you.... uh.... here's the coded e-mail... 01001011011100100110010101100101011001000101111100110001001101010100000001101000011011110111
01000110110101100001011010010110110000101110011000110110111101101101
yeah.... that was lame.... Imma shut up now.... hope to hear from you soon...

P.S. E-mail me your phone number, so we don't have to use the web version of snail mail... >< Thanx