Why do I need to encrypt a backup?

All of a sudden today, and for the first time ever, when trying to backup my iPad 2 in iTunes I see a message telling me "that a password is required to encrypt the back up the ipad on this computer" The 'encrypt backup' box in the summary tab is unticked.
I do not really want to encrypt the back as this is the only computer that the iPad is ever used with, has anyone any idea as to why all of a sudden it is asking for a password and is there any way of avoiding having to create one?
Thanks

OK, now I see the difference.  Since subdir.bak is empty, I get no output from DIR.  
Asking for DIR subdir.bak*  is similar to asking for Get-Item subdir.bak which does return the expected result.

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