Go to the General Tab for the Folder (Right Click>Properties) and hit the advanced button.  From there you can uncheck the encrypt option.

Try making a new folder and copy some of the contents over and see what happens. Or, turn off Encrytpion and Read Only entirely and see what happens.

Message Edited by jmwills on 05-11-2005 11:40 AM

Unfortunately, that doesn't work because it is the Desktop folder that I've encrypted.  If I select that option, what happens is that when I click "OK" it attempts to decrypt the file but then fails because it says the Desktop is read-only (I get an error message to that effect).  If I try to unselect Read-Only, it appears to do so, but then the next time I open it up, it is back to read-only again.  The end result is that it is still encrypted.

Thanks for the suggestion.  No luck, though.  :-(

I am able to decrypt specific files and folders.  It's just that anything new I create on the desktop itself is automatically encrypted.  For now, I've just created a single new folder on my desktop, decrypted it, and am creating all new folders within that folder rather than the desktop.  It makes my desktop neater, if nothing else.

At the end of the day, it isn't that big a deal, it's just an annoyance, as I don't have any other users, and files copied to non-NTFS volumes are automatically decrypted anyway.  I just thought MS would be a little more flexible here.

akuska

Maybe this MS article will help?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308993&sd=tech

Thanks.  I searched this site and found another article that helped me decrypt my desktop.  Basically, what I did was the following:

1. I created a new user on my PC (as an administrator)
2. I used the following article to set that user up as a "recovery agent" for my primary username. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;887414#kb1
3. I logged on as that new users, and then activated it as the recovery agent (see article above), and then proceeded to open up the desktop folder properties in my main username, where I was able to decrypt the folder because, not being "active" (as it is when I am logged onto it under that username), I was able to remove the read-only attribute and encryption.

 

akuska

Good find