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Price: Free
Date Added: Jun 2006
Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me, Windows XP
File Size: 163KB
Downloads Count: 477893
Author: Brian Kato
We've all done it: accidentally deleted a vital file a few minutes before an urgent deadline--and then couldn't find it in the Recycle Bin. Fortunately, there's no need to panic, yet.
Restoration is a free program that can scan your hard drive, floppy diskette or USB thumb drive and find files that have been deleted (Windows doesn't actually destroy files that you delete: it just marks the space they occupy as being available). It can then recover any recently deleted files it finds with a single mouse click.
You can filter the results if you know the name of the file you are looking for, which is much easier than wading through the list of the hundreds of deleted files it usually finds (including temporary files, cached Web files, etc).
Restoration doesn't need to be installed to work. Just keep the program on a floppy or an optical disc and pop it into the drive and run it when you need it (This approach also prevents your accidentally overwriting the deleted file). Although the program has not been updated since 2004, it still worked well in my informal tests and it recovered several files that I had deleted without problems.
--Richard Baguley
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Recover deleted files--or delete them for good--with this small program.
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477596 | Free | Jun 2006 |
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A handy tool that makes moving, renaming and otherwise manipulating files easy.
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238461 | Trial | Jun 2006 |
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Clean out system junk and craplets from your PC
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223867 | Free | Aug 2007 |
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200180 | Free | Aug 2007 |
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Remove duplicate files from multiple folders or from the other side of the partition.
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196369 | Free | Aug 2007 |
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This multi-purpose tool helps you work with the Windows Registry, erase disks, and search for files.
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193345 | Trial | Aug 2007 |
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Break your files into smaller pieces to be saved on removable media.
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192204 | Free | Aug 2007 |
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Chop files into small chunks and create a program that restores them. Great for e-mailing large files.
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180684 | Free | Jun 2006 |
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Saw your files in half (or smaller pieces) for e-mailing so others can reassemble them without a cape and wand.
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164402 | Shareware | Jun 2006 |
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Locate duplicate files with this easy-to-use tool.
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130705 | Free | Aug 2007 |
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