I've been scratching my head on this issue for awhile. I work at a public library and we use software (DeepFreeze) that, upon reboot, will wipe any changes made to a machine during a user's session. Because of this, we've tried to make things as simple as possible for our users (as much as we can).
We've successfully changed the default save location for Office products to the current user's Desktop. Unfortunately, when users choose to "Open" documents sent to them - in emails for instance - when the user chooses to "Save", it simply
overwrites the file in its current location - typically the Temporary Internet Files folder (or subfolder). When they then look for the file on the desktop after having closed the document within, let's say, Microsoft Word, it is not on the desktop as they
(unfortunately) suspected. Trying to then find the file in the system after the fact becomes rather difficult as we also have the C: drive hidden via local group policy settings.
Is anyone aware of any such way to (possibly) circumvent this particular type of problem? Thanks!