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Squishor · 03-22-2005, 07:42 PM

Hullo. My work finally decided to upgrade my deteriorating POS windows 98 machine, so they bought me a whole new Dell system with windows xp (sorry I don't know if it's home or pro at the moment but I can check tomorrow). So I've spent the past week fiddling with it in between working, getting it so it's how I want to use it.

I discovered today that it's saving a copy of word documents I open from my email into "my documents." This is very bad and has to stop! Does anyone know how to stop this? I've been looking in MS xp help, looking around the internet, went to annoyances.org, but can't find any mention of it. I am using opera, but I really don't think that's the problem because that's the browser I always use and it's never done that before.

Here's what's happening:

I go to my webmail account and open an email containing a word document.

I "open" (not "save") the document and "save as" to the location where I want it. (I tried saving it without opening it but ran into some problems - first it wouldn't work at all, and then it did but gave me a document that word couldn't find the file pathway for. Weird.)

Once the document is saved to the correct location, I work on it.

I later find that a copy was saved to my documents when I opened the email.

I really don't want to have to go into my documents and delete them all at the end of each work day. Blech. Anyone know about this?

03-22-2005, 07:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Squishor Frontal Lobe Location: California	Irritating problem in xp - help? Hullo. My work finally decided to upgrade my deteriorating POS windows 98 machine, so they bought me a whole new Dell system with windows xp (sorry I don't know if it's home or pro at the moment but I can check tomorrow). So I've spent the past week fiddling with it in between working, getting it so it's how I want to use it. I discovered today that it's saving a copy of word documents I open from my email into "my documents." This is very bad and has to stop! Does anyone know how to stop this? I've been looking in MS xp help, looking around the internet, went to annoyances.org, but can't find any mention of it. I am using opera, but I really don't think that's the problem because that's the browser I always use and it's never done that before. Here's what's happening: I go to my webmail account and open an email containing a word document. I "open" (not "save") the document and "save as" to the location where I want it. (I tried saving it without opening it but ran into some problems - first it wouldn't work at all, and then it did but gave me a document that word couldn't find the file pathway for. Weird.) Once the document is saved to the correct location, I work on it. I later find that a copy was saved to my documents when I opened the email. I really don't want to have to go into my documents and delete them all at the end of each work day. Blech. Anyone know about this?