Help.  My PC crashed following a Windows update.  Skip to the end had to re-install Windows from scratch.

Had plenty of disk space so re-installed to the existing partition, thus keeping all old files in windows.old

So I can find my old files in windows.old/users/as/....   documents but I can't open them.  I know the password I used when encripted, but I'm lost on how I can open them now. 

To be honest I prefer not to use DDP anymore.

Any assistance VERY welcome.