Recent content by Boyd851

I found this about WinRar's temp files noting an option to secure delete them when closing WinRar Does WinRAR leave traces of temporarily extracted files?.

Many thanks for this. Apreciated. I've used my Passwords.txt file for the past ten years, before I think these password maintenance programs were developed. Notepad++ is now the default in Windows 11. You can uninstall it and endeavour to use classic Notepad (which isn't tabbed and autosaved in...

Many thanks for this. Amazing that we have to use ChatGPT to pin down the location. I checked your info and it's accurate. MIcrosoft really should warn us about this. Notwithstanding the stirctures in the next post I bet there loads of users blithely using WinRar to encrypt text files in...

Yes, I'll do that next time as standard practice. Excellent tip. Something I tried was uninstalling new Notepad and restoring the classic Notepad.exe, which can still be found in the Windows folder as default. But Windows 11 won't let let you set classic Notepad as default even after you have...

Thanks so much for this. Problem solved, though I'm still uneasy there's a plaintext version of that file floating away somewhere in my system. I did wipe-delete the entire AppData\Local\Temp folder so hopefully that's sorted. Thanks again. Really appreciated.

I keep a RAR encrypted version of my Passwords.txt file. I don't ever save its plaintext version. However I've discovered that the new automatic save feature of the new tabbed version of Notepad does just that, which of course I don't want. Specifically what happened was that I decrypted my...