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.
Sounds to me like big sister just got busted watching.
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?
? 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.
Let’s stop beating around the bush. Bill Gates is watching all of us!
I recently found something on my laptop computer that was from three laptops ago. I figure it was transfered with each generation of computer when I used microsoft’s “transfer files and settings” program between each generation.
Any chance you had those docs on a thumb drive that you might have plugged into the new laptop? If you explored that drive, any files with a Works specific filetype that were recognized by the system through file association would probably make it into the list. That’s my guess, anyway.
What anti-malware program are you using? I had an account with Webroot for my computers, and one of its free features is that it automatically backs things up in the cloud. (I was unaware that it was doing this, BTW, and was substantially creeped out when I found out.) Next time I installed Webroot in the same account on a new computer, the connection was made with some old Word docs from my previous computer. So you must have some software running in background that captured your old Word files. Could have been any number of things because there are quite a few programs that can do that, these days.
It’s not Big Sis or Mr Bill, but yes, it’s exceptionally creepy. Even though this saved my life when the old computer suddenly conked out in an odd way that negated my external drive, I put a stop to further automatic uploads to the Webroot cloud.
Happens all the time.
Restart your computer i safe mode. Look for a file in your c drive: dll.ea.google/works:oldwork:isp82715
Google monitors all work done on any computer and saves it as virtual data and cross tracks it with your internet isp.
In their recent settlement with the feds, they agreed to this stipulation so all data can be available to the NSA.