Green means it is encrypted in NTFS, and you will need to access it
using the account you encrypted it in. You may want to look up
encrypting in the Windows Help.

un impressed with excel wrote:

My xls file is green in windows explorer. I can not open it. it tells me its
encrypted. i want to open it. it dosent ask for a password or anything it
just tells me it may be encrypted and cant open. any suggestions??
thanks