Recent content by Slimfinger

@patcooke: will you please address my reply to you concerning your insistence that MS Word 2007 does not encode or encrypt documents by default? You seem absolutely sure of this, yet I am unable to confirm this either way via documentation. I certainly know that I have not proactively...

As I speak, I am viewing a MS Word 2007 (.docx) document that I just created with some simple text in a hex editor. I am completely unable to discern any of the text or ASCII character codes in any recognizable form. I would greatly appreciate any advice you may have if I am in fact in error...

They were copied and then deleted. And yes, they are not to be found, either. Files were not sent to others, or offsite. I have enumerated what has been done, so not sure what you meant there. I also checked what you suggested, though I did not enumerate them specifically. So certainly...

Thanks. But, ah, you certainly do know what is "irrelevant"! LOL I simply do not appreciate what I consider disrespect when someone asks a question that is irrelevant to the problem at hand AND/OR the person demonstrates that he/she hasn't even bothered to pay attention to the problem. In...

jcgriff - is there something I'm missing, or isn't that just a simple OS command that will look for files by name? Is there some way that this command will actually search outside of the file system or look for arbitrary data within the file? I think that maybe you haven't read my question very...

I had an MS Word 2007 file on my system. I had it opened for a couple days, and during this time, Windows decided to FORCE a restart of my system (beautiful idea to default to this behavior, btw), and while doing so completely lost (how?) my saved copy of the aforementioned file. This file is...