Windows File Encryption

Decryption

• download PSTools from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec 
• This can be used to run commands as the SYSTEM user
• You need to do this to decrypt the database data files / elastic search data files
• Cmmand to decrypt folder and all contents as system user: PsExec.exe -i -s cipher /d /s"fullPathToFolder" (documentation for the cipher command can be found here