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That's just someone having trouble getting the certificate to save. I'm wondering why this popped up completely randomly while using my computer. I didn't try to encrypt a file or anything. I did a scan for malware with Defender and then HitMan Pro to be extra sure. Nothing found. So I just closed it, and assume its fine.
I had a similar dialog on a Windows 10 Pro when I used File explorer to look in particular folders.
- It was not random in my case.
- The dialog appeared when I opened folders on a USB formatted by my TV's set-top box. Those folders were coloured in a particular way to distinguish them from normal folders [I think they were pink].
- I found explanations online that said such behaviour could be expected for drives formatted by some non-Windows OSs.
- I appear to have deleted all notes of the incident so cannot give you any helpful links.
Going by memory alone -
I tried going through the dialog's certificate export/backup routine in an effort to shut it up.
Then I disabled EFS in Task manager, Services, EFS, Open services and that succeeded.
Denis