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Soda > That's what I was thinking, but if that works, you wouldn't have to reinstall the first XP again... you could just change the key to that of the first one... I think :D

Would changing his Windows key to the original one defeat EFS? Dunno, but it could be worth a try, I guess... if you have your original key, you can change the one you have now to the original one...

It would help if Soda would wake up and tell us :D
Would changing his Windows key (which can be easily done... if his Windows copy is legal, he should have a key) back to the original one help to...

Wouldn't that defeat the entire point of EFS? EFS-encrypted files can only by accessed by users with the right permissions. If you could just add permitted users, what's the use?

The problem is...

You didn't turn on EFS for those files/folders by any chance, did you? :p