Beware Hotmail!

I just spent the last hour trying to find Jennifer's paper for school. She sent it to herself in an e-mail and when she opened the attachment she selected open, rather than save as (which I highly recommend doing anytime you get a document out of your e-mail). After opening the document from within her hotmail account, she clicked the little disk in the corner of word that saves the file. The file saved and on she went with her life. After typing 5 pages, she saved and closed the document. Much to her surprise, the document was no where to be found. After spending a good deal of time searching the computer, I found a workaround online.

Apparently Word (Microsoft Product) automatically saved the file in the temporary internet files (Microsoft Again) and the search features within Vista (Yep it's Microsoft as well) are too stupid to find the files. After unlocking certain features in my folders and downloading a file search program called Agent Ransack (Definitely not Microsoft), I was able to locate the file and save it to the desktop. Thank you Microsoft for being dumb enough to have a file created with your system, transfered through your mail, and searched for with your software appear to completely disappear.