One very important feature in keeping your data secure and often over looked is encryption.Alot of lazy admins don't take the time out to encrypt there sensitive data. So if the machine gets compromised the jigs up on them, but if you encrpt your files and sensitve data anything thats taken is useless to most intruder's and a waste of there time. So for all the lazy admins out there on the wild wild web heres a reg tweak to add a Encrypt/Decrypt option to the context menu in Win 2000/XP Pro right click one click way to encrypt/decrypt your data on the fly with this by adding the following registry keys:

Windows 2000:
1. Start the registry editor (Regedit.exe)
2. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY LOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. From the Edit menu select New - DWORD value
4. Name the new value EncryptionContextMenu.
5. Double click the new value and set to 1.
6. Click OK
7. Close the registry editor
8. Reboot the computer for the change to take effect (or you can start Task Manager and stop explorer.exe and start a new occurance)

If you now right click on a file/folder Encrypt will be listed for non-encrypted files, Decrypt for encrypted files.

Reg Source
; Adds encrypt/decrypt to the context menu
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EncryptionContextMenu"=dword:00000001

The Encrypting File System (EFS) is a great tool for protecting sensitive documents. Unfortunately, Home Edition doesn't support it, but if you use Windows XP Professional, you can encrypt files by editing their Advanced properties - or use this tweak to encrypt your files more quickly and easily with just a right click:

Windows XP Pro:
1. Start the registry editor (Regedit.exe)
2. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY LOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. Click Edit | New | DWORD Value.
4. Name the new value EncryptionContextMenu.
5. Double click the new value. In the Value Data text box, type 00000001 and ensure that the Hexidecimal option button is selected.
6. Click OK.
7. Close the Registry Editor.

Now when you right click a file, a new option (Encrypt) will appear in the right click context menu.You can encrypt the file by selecting it.And it acts like a reminder to Encrypt your files everytime you right click../

THX for the info and the reg file. I try it out