This is a Public retraction to Microsoft after giving there EFS on Windows 7 a 0/10 score and saying it was useless. A few days after writing my blog entry about the EFS system, i was contacted by a gentlemen in American called Mike Grass who works for Microsoft and actually designed the EFS system on the latest Operating System. Mike had been looking around the net for anything to do with the EFS in Windows 7 and happened across my site and saw the problems i had wrote about. Mike contacted me and offered to help. After writing emails back and forth to get an idea of how my system was set up he went about duplicating my system setup to see if he could get the same results.

I was honestly thinking it was just my copy of Windows 7 that was causing problems and that i must have done something during the setup to cause it to not work correctly – but after nearly 2 weeks, Mike has finally duplicated the exact same problems – and has determined that the problem lies within the Anti-virus program i am using called Comodo Anti-virus / Firewall.

Of all the problems i guessed it was, i never suspected that it might have been my Anti-Virus program causing the problems. Mike is now working on a permanent fix for the problem with the EFS system and may contact Comodo regarding the problem. Even if no fix is produced, its nice to know I’m not bonkers but there is a solution out there and it wasn’t really anything to do with the Windows 7 system that was causing it.

I would like to publically thank Mike Grass from Microsoft for all his help and his hard work in his own time for finding a resolution to this problem.