[cynwoody]

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.

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?

[GeronL]

I think he has indicated that those documents never had any connection to this current computer