Msg: Re: a Windows 7 question re 'encryption key'

There are A LOT of things that need to be disabled on Windows, in my opinion -- starting with the wretched UAC ! And it just seems to get worse with each later iteration of the OS.

Jordan

From: Lynn Brenner
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: a Windows 7 question re 'encryption key'

. . .

So it seems to be a bug of some kind. I'm uncertain about whether to follow the Windows prompt and create a back up encryption key. My main impulse at this point is to figure out how to disable encryption on this machine!

Lynn

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:38 PM, J R FOX mailto:jr_fox@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Could be. (I have not installed a 7 or 8 in many months . . . so I don't know what they may be doing differently these days.)

Jordan

From: Lynn Brenner mailto:lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: a Windows 7 question re 'encryption key'

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:12 AM, J R FOX mailto:jr_fox@xxxxxxxx wrote:
What was the source of your W7 ? Retail box ? OEM disc that came with the computer

Retail box.

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What they do say is that they've recently installed Windows 7 or Windows 8.

Is it possible that MS delivers the prompt as a precautionary warning -- i.e., in case you decide in future to encrypt files, you'd better back up your encryption key -- but is too verbally challenged to make that clear?