Recover deleted or changed files on Windows Vista

• One of the special editions of "Professional" and "full" Vista is the function: Shadow Copy.
  
  
• This feature automatically creates and returns shadow of personal files, using the support of the automatic restore points.
  
  
• System Restore to an earlier date will not act as the system files and not affect in any case, your personal files.
  
  
• Of course, when creating restore points, your personal files are also saved in this cliché, but that registration is only available in editions of "Professional" and "Full", via the "previous versions" in "Properties" from the file. It is then possible, in these editions of Vista, to recover accidentally deleted a file or a change recorded by mistake.
  
  
• This feature is enabled by default on all editions of Vista but is not exploitable in the editions of "Basic" and "Family."
  
  
• ShadowExplorer This utility will let you can retrieve a copy of a file lost or altered, even in the editions of "Basic" and "Family."
  
  
• Download ShadowExplorer and save it in your folder "Downloads".
  
  
• Right-click the downloaded file and "Run as administrator".
  
  
• Follow the installation process.
  
  
• Always run this utility as an administrator, therefore, a right-click on the program, the "Properties", "Compatibility" tab, check "Run as administrator" and "Apply."
  
• Now, running ShadowExplorer, one can have access to copies of recorded personal files and can exploit them.
  
• The dates that appear in ShadowExplorer correspond to restore points available to the system and can recover from all the dates listed, a copy of any personal file to an earlier date.
  
• This is a small utility that may well one day you troubleshoot and avoid the loss of valuable personal files.