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I did try both links for the freeware but it did not help. Are you saying that somehow the word documents had gotten password protected? is this something they may have done? I am very leary about bringing it back and losing even more data or worse having to reinstall all of my programs over if they wipe it out even worse then the first time.

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I am new here and apologise if I did not fid this info anywhere else yet (I really looked) but I had lost files for my business that a certian store had deleted for me when resetting the administrator from them to me. these files where kept on the desktop of my computer and all of these and my contacts where gone when I got my computer back. your recover program has located the files but when I open them (in microsort word) in the program they were built in they come back in a different code of some sort. Is there anyway to repair this issue? Thanks in advance for any help.