Posted on 01/30/2012 2:57:48 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass
OK, I am working on my laptop, purchased less than two years ago. I have to type up a letter needing some formatting, so I fire up Microsoft Works that came preinstalled, for the first time.
When I go to the word processor, it shows, in the "Task Pane" on the right, under "Recent Documents," several papers on Aristotlian and Eastern Rhetoric.
Thing is, I wrote those papers in 2002, on a different laptop, one that I haven't had in my possession since at least 2004.
The one computer on my home network that we might have had back then has had its hard drive replaced, and then the new one reformatted since then.
I am not aware of any ersatz "cloud" computing I was doing back then, so how on earth does my Microsoft Works on my newer computer know I wrote these papers way back when?
Any thoughts, because this is kind of bizarre?
Perhaps you’re not logging into that computer but into a domain, which retains your user’s info?
You forgot to log off. Since 2002, you have been logged on.
Seriesly, who knows???
Cue the “Twilight Zone” theme...
That is pretty strange, I thought MS stopped supporting MS Works a while back.... heh
Do you ever use Wordpad too?
I did both before I went and got MS Office 2007 edition.
You probably should ditch MS Works since its word processing files are not easily compatible with MS Word. There are conversion programs from Microsoft that allows Word to read older MS Works files but then I save them in Word format. The home and student edition of Word is not very expensive and if you know a high school, college student or teacher they can often get discounted copies of MS Office. If you do not want to spend the money for MS Office, Open Office can be downloaded for free and saves files in a Word format.
What’s a Trailerpark Badass doing writing papers about Aristotlian Rhetoric?
Did you use a hard drive or back up disk from years ago. Did you put Cd or DVD thinking it was music to download. It might of been on one of those. I know I have Cd or DVD with out all the info on the label if I pop it in. I have been pleasantly surprised at times.
Microsoft Works == Jumbo Shrimp == Rap Music == Wise Liberal
Sounds to me like big sister just got busted watching.
“What’s a Trailerpark Badass doing writing papers about Aristotlian Rhetoric?”
Because Aristotle was a badass himself. He was known to knock back a few beers and then go out and kick the $#!+ out of the neioghborhood Phoenecians every now and again. He also had a flame job airbrushed on his chariot. Yep, that Aristotle was one mean mutha.
Open Office is a good deal better than MS Works but just slightly behind MS Office in certain categories. It’s an awesome product for free!
I have used Open Office quite a bit, and it’s more than slightly behind MS Office. I will agree that it’s absolutely free, and you can do quite a bit with it.
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What happens when you click on those "Recent Documents"?
Windows keeps a folder called Recent (it shows as My Recent Documents in Explorer, but it's real name is Recent) in each user's home folder. It's filled with shortcuts to documents you accessed at one time, but are not necessarily still on your computer. Did you ever access the documents in question from your current computer?
Aristotle was also hired to be tutor to Alexander the Great. He is famous for spanking him when he messed up.
“What’s a Trailerpark Badass doing writing papers about Aristotlian Rhetoric?”
Dunno, but that Aristotlian Rhetoric stuff is Greek to me.
I think he has indicated that those documents never had any connection to this current computer
? when you moved to the new system, did you move your files, pictures etc. If so you may actually have those files and if they are in the default places along with the shortcuts that would explain it.
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