encrypted files and installing Windows 7-advice needed

[Tattooed]

Hi,
In the next few days I’m going to install Windows 7 over Vista . The problem is I have a lot of encrypted files and passworded winzip files. If I do a fresh or an upgrade to windows 7 what will happen to the encrypted files?

I have the password a the file name.


Any advice?

 

[theheyes]

Your files will remain intact and you should be able to open them with Winzip as normal but you should always back up regardless.

 

[tntcoder]

How did you encrypt the files? If you used Windows to do it then you will need to backup your EFS keys. If just zip files, then you're fine.