Windows 10: Try to encrypt folder in Windows 10 professional (win 10 pro) as administrator. Get "you...

Dear folks,


- For several hours I'm trying to encrypt a folder in Windows 10 Professional with Windows' built-in encryption tools.

- My users account-type is administrator.

- The ownership of the folder is assign to my user.

- It's just a folder in D:\ (so not a 'special' system folder or something.)

- I've dragged the UAC slider all the way to the bottom.


I try this:

- right click folder

- click 'properties' (at the bottom)

- a window opens (note: this window has a black square at "read-only (only applicable to files in the folder)" which I can't seem to get rid off. This however is -not- the problem, because I've another computer with the same problem, but allows me to encrypt a folder I've just made)

- click advanced (a new window opens)

- put a checkmark at "encrypt contents to secure data"

- click OK (the window disappears)

- click OK in the properties-window


Then pops up a message (with a red circle with a white cross) saying "You need administrator privileges to change these atributes. Click Continue to complete this operation." If I then click 'Contine' (which has a blue-yellow shield next to it) I get a message saying "An error occured while applying the attributes" with the buttons 'ignore', 'ignore all', 'try again', 'abort'. The button 'try again' offcourse doesn't work.


I've searched the internet for hours. What is this?

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

windows 10 key

Thanks but I don't want to do any decrypting. I want to download a Win 10 ISO from Microsoft and install it using my Win 8 key. No other steps required. Is that possible?

 

Encrypting a folder

Hello Bill,

To encrypt a folder in Windows 10 Home, follow these steps:

• Right-click the folder you want to encrypt and click Properties.
• On the General tab, click Advanced.
• Under Compress or Encrypt attributes, click Encrypt contents to secure data.
• Click OK then Apply to save the changes.

We're just here if you need further help.