Transferring Office 2007, Firefox 53, Thunderbird 54, Adobe Reader 11 Cache to Encrypted Z: Drive

I mean moving the cache and temp folders of programs such as:
- Office 2007 (Excel and Word, I don't have the others)
- Firefox 53
- Thunderbird 54
- Adobe Reader 11

to another disk so that there are no traces of these programs' activities on other disks, in particular the histories of opened documents, websites in firefox, etc. etc.

I want to transfer everything to the Z: drive which I have encrypted with Vera Crypt.
Where on the Microsoft Office hard drive keep my open documents?

melaniamela wrote:

Where on the Microsoft Office hard drive keep my open documents?

If I am not mistaken in its subfolder in AppData C: \ Users \ username \ AppData. To view it, you need to find the "show hidden items" option.
I'll see where exactly.

melaniamela wrote:

to another disk so that no traces of these programs' activities remain on other disks

I encountered something such that the program, if it did not find its folder in the user's Appdata, generated this "garbage" again - I do not know what MS Office will do with it.

edit:

MS Office:
C: \ Users \ name \ AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Office
C: \ Users \ name \ AppData \ Local \ Microsoft \ Office
last opened: C: \ Users \ name \ AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Office \ Recent

Firefox:
C: \ Users \ name \ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla
C: \ Users \ name \ AppData \ Local \ Mozilla

Exactly, office creates this dumpster again after "moving / deleting".
Microsoft added the option to encrypt a single partition in at least one such as BitLocker but they didn't think about what I'm talking about in this thread. Even a layman will rake up the documents that were worked on from the cache folders because the system simply does not clean them when logging out.

Do you know what I started thinking about today?
On "what people (programmers) Microsoft employs.
After all, wherever you look in Windows and others, it's an "underdeveloped" trash can everywhere.
Take BitLocker versus VeraCrypta as an example. Normally some paranoia.
Weird and twisted difficulties everywhere. I have the impression that Windows systems are created by kindergarten kids. Aren't those people who create it working on some old Atari? Everything is not as it should be. No intuition, no thoughts, everything so twisted that you want to vomit.
Windows includes: AppData including Roaming, Local, Local Low.
In addition, it has ProgramData and Program Files twice, as if the x86 / 64 division had any meaning today. Then "Application Data" and the rigidly protected "Apllication Data" and several TEMPs divided into * .TEMP and * .TMP files. I will not even mention the brothel called "Documents and settings" because there is a copy of the USERS folder in it, but with very "wild" access rights set as if our logins and passwords to the bank were inside.

By loading Office we add a lot of garbage to AppData + MSOcache in C: \
Why MSOcache when we have some empty TEMPs created by the system?
There are also spare package files in MSOcache, in my case it is 679MB.

huluk wrote:

Probably some of these "strange and twisted difficulties" result from the desire to maintain backward compatibility with previous versions of the system and applications.

It is slightly incomprehensible because Windows 10 is Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 is Windows 8.0 and this, unfortunately, is a tuned version of Windows 7 which is based on Windows Vista, which debuted in January 2007. Backwards compatibility could be maintained in a different way:
- add a selection option to the system installer:
YES, I will use the software designed for W98 / ME / 2000 / XP
YES, I will use a software designed for Vista / 7
and then you could quite boldly slim the system during installation.

I've been watching Windows7 since its inception. Today there is only one conclusion:
65% of the system content is redundant!
Microsoft should start taking people a little more seriously. Those who want to be backward compatible do not supply their computers with 16/32 / 64GB of RAM, do not install mega-fast m2 SSDs, do not play with UEFI, do not replace systems by themselves.
Virtually 95% of users working on a PC are so familiar that they know perfectly well to work brilliantly comfortably on XP and old software - you do not need to have 8 cores and 32GB of RAM.

Backward compatibility - okay, but with what exactly? Those who work on the old software have old systems. I still have the W2000 at work.
Microsoft came up with backward compatibility so that I would pay a thousand for the W10 pro and keep working on what I run on W2000 or what?

melaniamela wrote:

Microsoft came up with backward compatibility so that I would pay a thousand for the W10 pro and keep working on what I run on W2000 or what?

From Win2000 to Win10 ??
It definitely won't work ...
Already on Win8 there are problems with many programs from Win 2000 / XP