Lordie, I despise Microsoft.
My wife's only computer is a fairly recent notebook that arrived with Vista Home Edition pre-installed. Other than being slower than molasses in January it has been okay, and she's not a power user so the pretty graphics more than make up for the lack of speed (in her estimation). However ... Houston, we have a problem:
She received an e-mail with attachments of several VERY important legal documents that had been roughly translated into Spanish, and she was to clean up the translations into grammatically correct Espanol. The documents are in Word. She opened each document by clicking it in the list of attachments in the e-mail, and it duly opened in Word. She then made the necessary editorial revisions, and hit ... SAVE. Not SAVE AS ... just SAVE.
And now we can't find them to do anything else with them. Actually, we CAN find them, we just can't access them. She still has the e-mail, so we can still open them up by clicking the attachment. If I then hit SAVE AS, it tells me I am in a directory that's just a random sequence of letters and numbers. As I click successively higher in the hierarchy, I discover that I eventually get up to C:/USERS/NAME/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/TempInternetFiles ... and then some other stuff.
Cool. I remember MS-DOS and I know what a file directory tree looks like. So I fire up Windows Explorer and go looking for the gibberish sub-sub-subdirectory so that I can move or copy all the files over to a project directory in her DOCUMENTS directory.
No joy. It seems that AppData is hidden. Windows Explorer in Vista, unlike in XP, doesn't allow me to see the inner workings of Windows. I don't even get to see the program files directory, or the TempInternetFiles directory.
Is there a way to set something, somewhere in Vista, so I can see and access the files I need? I know enough not to go deleting program files, but I NEED to be able to chase down these documents and be able to move them around. My wife is sufficiently un-computer savvy as to make me appear almost knowledgeable, so it's unlikely I will ever be able to explain to her that in such cases she has to use SAVE AS rather than SAVE, and click up the tree and then back down until she gets to where she wants the documents. In short, she is the type of computer user Microsoft had in mind when they progressively hid more and more stuff in Windows to protect users from ever having to think about what they're doing.
HELP!
