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EXE accidental program file deletion… if you accidentally delete a program.exe can it be restored to fully function?

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EXE accidental program file deletion… if you accidentally delete a program.exe can it be restored to fully function?

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Good to know you’re aware of the System Restore, which certainly can be a valuable resource. More often then not system restore is useful for changes made to the operating system and driver configuration, rather then the restoration of deleted data. It also doesn’t serve as a backup program, so your knowing to normally back things up is also a good place to be. I’m not sure if you normally backup to another drive, as is more common, or to a .ZIP archive on your current drive. Or maybe a .ZIP archive on another drive? Anyway, on to your primary question. If you’ve just deleted the executable of a non-operating system file, you can use a simple free program called FreeUndelete from OfficeRecovery.com to restore most files. There certainly are exceptions to what can be recovered, but this often works. The description of FreeUndelete from the manufacturer: FreeUndelete is data recovery program for deleted files. In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS (used by default in Windows

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