Quote Originally Posted by cl_out
I'll take a guess that Samuraid did his tests on a Win2k3 machine (either standalone or on a domain) and didn't do a reinstall on the OS partition between encrypting the files and trying to recover them, hence he would have had no problems decrypting local files made by other users
I did it on my XP Pro machine on a home workgroup. The files were stored on a non-system NTFS parition. I completely reformatted the system partition and reinstalled windows. After reformatting/reinstalling windows, I used the same admin account name and the same password and simply took ownership of the files. I then was able to deencrypt them. Don't ask me how this was possible, I don't have a clue why. But it did work.