Is that you can decrypt an encrypted file without having the certificate?

I upgraded from XP to W7 and XP has apparently decided to encrypt all of my photos and videos of girls newborn without knowing me.  I have a C: drive and a partition of drive Z:.  I moved all the pictures and videos I wanted to drive Z: (not knowing they were numbered randomly) and installed W7 on my C: drive.  I'd erase everything on my C: drive to install W7 and save memory on my computer for me (this included the windows.old he created).  At the moment where I realized my files have been encrypted and it wasn't a matter of admin, System Restore does not go enough distance to when windows.old was still on it.  So now, I have all these encrypted photos and videos and get the woman's tongue lashings.  Anyone know of any possible solution or is all lost?

There is no way that the files 'XP apparently decided to encrypt' Native XP encryption can be done automatically. Encryption peut happen without your will, only if the computer is infected with one of the variants of ransomware Trojans. But you'd get messages of "blackmail". Otherwise, you'd encrypt the files yourself, not something you could do without intending to. What makes you think that files are encrypted? If you get an "Access denied" error message all you have to do is to take possession of the files . If you really encrypted files using EFS native process of XP (again, not something you could do without knowing what you were doing) and does not back up the certificates, the data is lost. You can communicate with people of Elcomsoft to see if their program might help; If this isn't the case, then the data is permanently inaccessible forever.

MS - using Encrypting File System
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457116.aspx

http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.html - encrypted files recovery application

Appropriating

A. check the permissions of the file or folder the file is saved in and appropriated:
      
1. right click on the file or folder and then click Properties.
2. click on the Security tab.
3. under group or user names, click your name to see the permissions you have.

To take ownership of a folder:

1 right click on the folder you want to take control and then click Properties.
2. click on the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.
3. click on modify. Need administrator permission if you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
4. click on the name of the person you want to give to the property.
5. If you want this person to be the owner of the files and subfolders in this folder, select the Replace owner of subcontainers and objects to check.
6. click on OK

MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

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