Is there any way to see deleted programs/files from my computer?

Question

What I want to know is if there's a possibility to see like a history of my computer since the first time I used them in my house eventhough I've erased programs or files I used a lot in the past... please help me put people I'm desperate

Thanks for the answers guys. What I want to know exactly is if there's a shortcut on MDOS or something like that to see what programs or file I've deleted from my pc in the past not to retrieve them I hope you know what I mean.

Answer 1

Windows keeps track on what you're doing to make things easier. It keeps lists of what you've been doing recently (eg: recently used files/programs; internet history). There is software to delete these lists, which typically only span a reasonably short period of time.

And when you delete things, is everything gone? Not everything... although just what would be visible is difficult to determine.

When things are deleted from your computer, they aren't removed from the hard disk fully... essentially, the file is marked as 'deleted', but the data remains. When the space you freed up by deleting the file is written over, the data is erased.

Well. Mostly.

Even then, with advanced tools, it's possible to recover some of the original data. Various effects like hysteresis (magnetising something one way, then the other way will give a different signal strength to just magnetising it the same way twice) and the hard drive writing to subtly different places on the disc mean that even after rewriting to the disk, it might be possible to recover some of the data.

There are software tools that will attempt to make it more difficult to recover the data saved to the hard disk, but these are unlikely to be sufficient if you are, for example, attempting to hide things from governments. And they vary in quality.

Answer 2

When a file is deleted, it is not actually removed from your hard drive. Rather the directory entry to the file is removed, so that Windows can not longer see it, and the space the file occupies is marked as free space.

As you save files in the future, eventually the location of the deleted file will be reused. Once that has happened, the deleted is permanently gone.

How long a file will "hang around" depends on how much free space you have on your computer, how often you save files, where the deleted file was physically located on the hard drive (it always looks for space starting at the inside center of the drive and moving out), etc.

It is unlikely that anyone could recover information more than a week or two back in time. If your hard drive is nearly full, it may only be a day or two back.

If you are concerned, go to http://download.com and look for a "file shredder" program. There are several available. They will go through your hard drive, and wherever it finds free space (deleted files) will overwrite the location with garbage. However running a shredder the first time can take a while (thinks hours). But once done, future "cleanings" go much faster.

Answer 3

I use http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/Restoration/Restoration.html
to get deleted files back. Windows often works to damage files once they've been deleted; it's just the way it works. BUT you may be able to recover lost files.

One hint: if you have deleted files you want to recover DO NOT use that computer and DO NOT install this program on that drive. Install it on a flash or external drive. The more you use the drive the less chance you have of recovering files.

Answer 4

Not really, you can use a program called Restoration to try and retrieve deleted files.

Answer 5

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