I'm unable to open files and folders, they show with green text

I was running windows vista and pc is dead.  I formatted the Windows 7 pc and managed to restore a large number of my documents but anyway (I have no idea how) some of my documents & records seem to have become encrypted.  They appear in green in the list of folders, and many of them seem to have the attributes "AE".  I tried everything to decrypt, but nothing seems to work. Can some one guide to remove encryption

I don't know why a folder or a file would suddenly become encrypted.

However if a website could tell you how to decipher it, what good encryption would be.

What happens when you double-click one of the folders or files?

If the files are encrypted, really, I don't think he has that you can do without the key.

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