EFS - Find out what's encrypted

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Hi

Since a few days when I start Windows Vista i get a Popup from "Encrypting File System" (coming from process efsui.exe) asking me to backup the certificate and key.

I don't know what i did to get this message (The last SW i did install was google desktop).

Now i'm wondering what directories or file are encrypted with EFS. Is there a way to found out?

Thanks for your help.

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