Comments on: How To Automate Microsoft EFS Encryption for Windows 7 XP or Vista

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:03:30 +0000

In reply to Jim C. Should be fixed now.

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:02:48 +0000

WordPress screwed up the code again…. fixed

By: Emile Krupp

Emile Krupp — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:23:34 +0000

Terrific summary, this is very similar to a site that I have. Please check it out sometime and feel free to leave me a comenet on it and tell me what you think. Im always looking for feedback.

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:50:18 +0000

In reply to Mike. @Mike, Super.. Thnx for the fyi.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:47:06 +0000

It seems wordpress has messed up your code again. There are a ton of ????????’s scattered through out it.

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:23:49 +0000

In reply to Quequi. @Quequi, Hey there! I appreciate your feedback and notifying me that the page was messed up. Not sure how or when it happend but all my " had become ? and all my \ had been removed. Wordpress or Live Writer must have done something funky and I didn't even know it!
Thanks for the re-write and notification and.... If you feel up to the task to build another script for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, let me know or post it in the forum. ;)

By: Quequi

Quequi — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:07:38 +0000

Script with Corrections

@echo off
REM EFS Encryption Script Version 1.0

REM ======================================================
REM First, let?s create a file to store all the work were doing.
echo ?????? >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
echo ?????? >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
REM ======================================================
echo %date% %time% >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
REM ===================================================
cipher /u >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
REM ===================================================
REM Begin encryption of the ?my document? folder
cipher /a /e /h /i /q /s:”%userprofile%\My Documents” >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
REM ======================================================
REM Begin encrption of the ?Outlook? folder where the OST and PST files are stored
cipher /a /e /h /i /q /s:”%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook” >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
REM ==================================================
REM More House Keeping
echo %date% %time% >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
echo ??????? >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
echo ??????? >> “%userprofile%\My documents\%computername%.efs”
REM ==================================================
REM ==================================================
REM All Done!

By: Jim C

Jim C — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:51:18 +0000

I get a script error, invalid character line 1 / 6. Can one just copy and paste this script or do you need to delete some of the characters?