I started getting a weird message "Encrypting file system - Back up your file encryption key"

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Published on 2010-06-11T05:12:21Z Indexed on 2011/11/14 1:55 UTC
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I started getting a strange message when I start my computer. An icon appears in the system tray, and a popup tells me "Encrypting file system - Back up your file encryption key".

I know what EFS is, but I don't use it. To my knowledge, I don't have any encrypted files on my partition. I have searched using Total Commander on all the partitions for files that have the "encrypted" attribute, but I found nothing. So I don't have any encrypted files.

Does anyone know what I did to get this message?

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