Enable or Disable NTFS File Encryption in Windows  

Pacman23 said:

@Brink - That's great - thanks for putting my mind at rest. I'll relax now until I go into 2004 meltdown in a few months.

Thanks @Brink for your advice. :)

Bastet said:

Thanks @Brink for your advice. :)

1 more option via CMD:

Code:

fsutil behavior set disableencryption 1

A definitive solution, some reported, that disabling it, did not stop the encryption.
Disable the service, but make sure to decrypt files first so you can access them.

Code:

sc config EFS start= disabled
net stop EFS /y

Cesare said:

It would be very nice and appreciable if you added screenshots so users can manually navigate to the Registry Editor and created a 32-Bit DWORD value and set the value to 1 to disable NTFS Encryption in Windows. Please do that. Thanks in advance.

Hello mate,

The REG files available to download were created to make it easy to do for you.

Otherwise, the note box provides the details on what to change in the registry if wanted to do it manually.

Cesare said:

OK. I have used both methods. The REG files and the manual tweak. Thanks for your advice.