I started having some problems with my laptop – Outlook failed with no meaningful error message. The problem started around the time a friend sent my a copy of system information so I could try and resolve a USB issue he has. The email contained ajava script to access an email service. Saved the text file with system info and deleted the message.
I decided to fix the Outlook issue and went hunting for the error log. What I found was a program folder called Motive with a bunch of log files and an application motmon.exe in it. Log file time stamps matched my failure. Motmon is apparently part of Dell Resolution Assistant, known to cause problems, and no longer used by Dell. Looking in the log files, I find all sorts of info about where I have been and what I have done. Since I don’t save browser history and clean out cookies and temp folders, it was a surprise.
Hunting for info on the log files, I did a search by file name and got a single result. This was to a user account record. The account name is that of my friend, and the record shows what appears to be my directory including these Motive logs.
