Data Protection

Windows provides file encryption in XP that encrypts the files on the disk per user, i.e. only that user can access them. Don't know however what happens after deletion though I suspect the protection will extend to files in the recycle bin.
FallenZer0 raises a real problem here; more than once in my career (though fortunately not many as it is a real lose-the-will-to-live task) I've "saved the day" by using a disk ediitor to retrieve data from a deleted or trashed file. It can be done.

Hi,

I'm sure you also know that before the data actually gets encrypted, EFS copies the file to a temporary file, adds DDF's, DRF's encrypted data and *writes* it back to the original file.

So whenever you encrypt, it is recommended that you delete the temporary file where the data is plaintext, using cipher.

FallenZer0