Hello again (Windows 98),

Clint's partial response to . Re: WinXP out of memory condition:
"`Applications` is only things like OE and folders you have open." made me
take a look at a similar folder in my C:\Windows\Application Data which has
about 10mb of folders there. They seem to parallel some of the folders I
have installed into my Program Files folder, with some exceptions:

For example, within that Applications Data folder is C:\Windows\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates, and within Templates is "Normal.dot" which
determines the page setup of how my Word opens. Now two questions:

1. What is the purpose of the Application Data folder? I might have asked
that before but I can't find it in our archives.
2. Then there was something more alarming that I discovered poking around in
that AD folder. I have a Word document with some personal information on it
and it is usually encrypted (I use Cryptext, it's free and efficient). And
there, in C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Word is that same Word file,
UNCRYPTED, labeled "AutoRecovery save of [name of file]". It was quite
alarming seeing a duplicate of my encrypted file in that folder totally
available to anyone accessing it. So the question is, how can that happen,
how did it get there, and how can I avoid that breach of my encryption
program? --- Harold
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