I am unable to decrypt my files and folder !

Files that are encrypted are only accessible by the person who encrypted them (and if they are encrypted on a domain with a domain account, the Data recovery Agent  - by default THE (domain) administrator - note THE adminiistrator - not any old member of the administrators group.

These files are encrypted by me itself and these should be decrypt....but I am unable to do it. I am not sure what wrong i did...Please help me to decryp these files. I don't want to buy a software.

itinfraops--"What program was used to encrypt the files?  
If MS Encrypting File System (EFS) , this reference may help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308993  "
What happens when you try to decrypt?

Error is attached as below.
Error.JPG

Have you had your password reset - that will trash your certificate.

Yeah I did it but don't know when. How to retrive it ?

Regards,

Ashutosh.

itinfraops--I have already mentioned that http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.html offers a free trial.

I came across this thread after a lost a bunch of files. The files had been encrypted for the past 6 months and I was able to access without a problem. Last week I had to temporarly turn off system restore and do a disk clean-up. When I went to access the files I got 'Access denied'.

I tried the above as well as ideas from other forums without any success. In the end I got most of the data back. How? Google desktop. It had cached the content from the word/excel/text files and the rest I had backups of.

I am never using EFS again! There is too  much that can go wrong it would seem and in any case if google desktop is caching the sensitve data it is pointless.

Just though I would post this in case others landed here from a google search.