05.07.10

System Restore Explorer

Posted in Tools at 1:20 pm by cphoton

While organizing my downloads, sometimes I directly delete files directly in order to free up some space, skipping the recycle step. Now, in Windows 7 it happened to me that sometimes it screws up in determining which folder to delete when you have no file selected, and it deletes the entire folder instead!

After venting for a bit, I decided to search for a better way to recover files than using an unerase tool. Fortunately, if you have System Restore enabled, Windows stores a copy of the files you deleted, and by using a tool called System Restore Explorer, you may be able to recover the recently unerased files (I recovered them all)!