Recovering a deleted file isn’t such a big deal since there are so many powerful tools out there, but only a few of them have actually managed to impress us till now.

Restoration is one of the apps that deserve to be praised because although it’s old and outdated, it still manages to do a great job on every Windows machine out there.

One of the greatest things about Restoration is that it doesn’t need to be installed, so you can basically run it from a USB flash drive, a CD or even a floppy drive.

It has a nice, simple and very clean interface, with minimal settings, so that you can easily take advantage of its powerful recovering features. Just pick the drives you want to scan for removed files, wait a little bit, choose the file and hit the Restore button.

Of course, scanning takes a while, especially if you have very large hard disks, but it all took up to 10 minutes during our tests. Not to mention that the recovery was 100 percent efficient in our case, but it might sometimes fail if it has to deal with very old files.

Restoration is a pretty fast application and it works very smooth, so it won’t eat up your CPU and RAM while searching for files to be recovered.

Overall, Restoration is one of the first tools to try if you accidentally removed some important files, but as always, it can’t do wonders if that’s not possible.