December 6th, 2011· Re-architected deep scan algorithm for JPGs and PNGs.
· Improved file searching on Windows 2008 R2.
· Improved support for Windows 8.
· Added Export file list feature.
· Improved keyboard navigation support.
· Fixed rare crash on XP during FAT scan.
· Improved memory usage for high volume drives.
· Minor bug fixes.
October 15th, 2011· Added content searching for specific text in deleted files.
· Added regular expression matching to the filter.
· Added preliminary support for Windows 8.
· Improved support for BartPE (added new folder creation).
· Fixed filter drop down highlight issue.
· Improved recovery of compressed files from drives with non-standard cluster size.
· Many minor UI improvements.
· Latvian language added.
March 28th, 2011· Added support for Windows 7 SP1.
· Added support for BartPE recovery CD.
· Improved file recovery from Apple iPods.
· Improved error handling on drives >1TB.
· More efficient memory usage when >1M files are found.
· Better handling of files that have lost file type.
· Added support for Kurdish language.
· Minor bug fixes.
December 20th, 2010· Fixed bug that caused "Unable to read MFT" error.
· Improved support for exFAT drives.
· Improved support for Windows 7.
· Added mnemonics to the Wizard.
· Extended logging for Windows 7 64-bit.
· Added link to Online Help.
· Fixed bug that could cause analysis fail on U3 drives.
· Minor bug fixes.
July 16th, 2010· Added ability to restore images to the clipboard.
· Improved Windows 7 support.
· Improved stability of background checking.
· Updated all internal URL references to piriform.com.
· Improved support for PDFs in deep scan.
· Updated setup routine to install for all users.
· Updated and simplified the installer
April 15th, 2010· Improved support for scrolling context menu.
· Improved language support.
· Improved context menu in info panel.
· Minor changes to recovery algorithms.
· Minor UI changes.
March 1st, 2010· Improved reliability of FAT32 disk scanning.
· Improved 64-bit EXE memory usage.
· Improved screen resize to avoid hiding controls.
· Improved use of mnemonics in Wizard screen.
· Better support for accessibility users.
· Minor tweaks and fixes.
February 5th, 2010· Improved NTFS scanning algorithm.
· Startup time improved with better memory management.
· Added Compressed file type to Wizard.
· Up and down keys now working correctly in the filter control.
· GUI text changes.
December 22nd, 2009· Files can now be recovered without requiring the scan to complete.
· Improvements to Thunderbird email recovery.
· Fixed bug with "Check for Updates" link.
· Fixed bug with tab stop not working after canceling scan.
· Fixed wizard options bug, which affected some languages.
· Minor bugs fixes and performance improvements.
November 23rd, 2009· Added support for non-standard sector size in Windows 7.
· 25% improvement in deep scan speed.
· Fixed bug when multi-selecting items in thumbnail view.
· Fixed repaint problem with thumbnail view.
· Fixed problem with file list view not display icons correctly.
· Added translator information to About Screen.
· Added Georgian translation
October 30th, 2009· Improved analysis of exFAT drives.
· Added U3 portable installer.
· GUI fixes for non-standard DPI (large fonts).
· Improved error messages for files that cannot be overwritten.
· Dropped support for Windows 98 to improve performance.
· Fixed bug in language selection.
· Minor bug fixes
September 30th, 2009· Added email recovery to Wizard.
· Improvements to Thunderbird email recovery.
· Improved handling of very large exFAT drives.
· Various stability fixes in 64-bit version.
· Updated installer to allow Recuva to run at the end.
· Added Estonian language support.
September 3rd, 2009· Added recovery of emails from Outlook Express.
· Added recover of emails from Windows Mail.
· Added 'Email' filter.
· Fixed bug that could cause secure delete to fail in list view.
· Various bug fixes.
July 24th, 2009· Added recovery of deleted Thunderbird emails.
· Added support for Nikon RAW in Deep Scan.
· Improved support of exFAT drives.
· Improved recovery of JPG images from NTFS drives.
· Various minor tweaks
June 29th, 2009· Added native 64-bit support.
· Added support for exFAT drives.
· Improved Windows 7 support.
· Fixed browse issue with the Wizard in Win98.
· Fixed a few other Win98 issues.
· Minor UI tweaks.
May 22nd, 2009· Improvements to Wizard browse dialog.
· Complete rewrite of PDF and RTF deep scan detection methods.
· Fixed display bug for status icons in low-color.
· Scan speed optimizations.
· Various UI tweaks.
April 21st, 2009· Added 'Time remaining' indication to the progress dialog.
· Added support for CRW (Canon RAW) files to the deep scan.
· Fixed issue that could cause some FAT 32 files to not be securely deleted.
· Improved error handling.
· Various UI changes.
March 20th, 2009· iPod track names are now restored.
· Improved UI stability when working with very large files.
· Improved handling of floppies on early Windows OSs.
· Various tweaks to UI for non-English languages.
· Scan optimizations.
· Various minor tweaks.
February 26th, 2009· Added iPod support to the wizard.
· Extra files removed when cancelling recovery from iPod.
· Added support for recovery from the logfile in Deep Scan.
· .DMP files are now only created in debug mode or for unsigned exes.
· Secure Delete feature renamed to Secure Overwrite.
· Improved error messages when attempting to scan removable drives.
· Improved support of virtual machines in Deep Scan.
· Various text changes.
January 26th, 2009· Added support for iPods.
· Fixed rare crash that could happen on certain JPGs in deep scan.
· Language DLLs are now stored in /lang folder.
· Fixed minor resizing issue with Launch wizard button.
· Added .m4a files to Audio filter.
· Scan engine optimizations.
· Various minor tweaks.
December 30th, 2008· Improved messages when cancelling large file recovery.
· Secure delete is now greyed for non-deleted files.
· Improved recovery of .TIF files from FAT32 drives.
· Filter category text now updates dynamically when changing languages.
· Fixed 'Check for updates' position in Vista.
· Various minor tweaks and improvements.
November 27th, 2008· Improved recovery of orphaned JPG images in FAT32.
· Launch wizard button now working properly in all cases.
· Improved scan canceling on large files.
· Fixed bug that caused Wizard icons to not be displayed in 16 bit color.
· Check for updates now included in tab-stop.
· Added Czech translation.
· Various minor UI tweaks.
October 22nd, 2008· Improved detection of encypted files.
· Optimized Windows 2008 Server deep scan routines.
· Added 'Run wizard' button to Options dialog.
· Scanning engine improvements.
· Minor bug fixes.
September 29th, 2008· Redesigned the Options window.
· Fixed bug related to Insufficient resources error.
· Improved handling of invalid file records.
· Various UI tweaks.
· Minor bug fixes.
August 28th, 2008· Duplicate files are now numbered sequentially.
· Added sort arrows to list view.
· Added Croatian translation.
· Minor updates to translations.
· Improvements to FAT32 routines.
· Various UI tweaks.
July 29th, 2008· Reduced memory usage by 10%.
· Added Office 2007 doc types to 'Documents' filter.
· Added .cab and .url to deep scan.
· Files with no name found during deep scan are now named using meta data.
· Works for the following file types: mp3, wma, wmv, rtf, url, doc, xls, ppt, vsd, tiff, jpg and png.
· Added support for USB drives with a sector size of 2048 bytes.
· Improvements to system info status.
· Minor bug fixes.
July 9th, 2008· Added ability to search for non-deleted files (for recovery from damaged or reformatted disks only).
· Added support for .rtf, .pdf, .mp3 and .tif files to deep scan.
· Fixed bug that would limit file size of .avi files to 1GB after deep scan.
· Various UI tweaks.
· Performance improvements.
June 11th, 2008· Fixed bizarre crash in filter box (if you press F4 twice).
· Fixed memory leak on FAT32 drives with large numbers of files.
· Fixed rare crash in secure deletion.
· Minor UI tweaks.
May 21st, 2008· Added support for video, audio, and compressed files in deep scan.
· Formats: .wma .ogg .wav .mov .mpg .mp4 .3gp .flv .wmv .avi .rar .zip
· Added 'Compressed' option to the filter.
· Fixed bug that could cause crash during deep scan, caused by corrupt image files.
· Added support for Microsoft Office tmp files.
· Allows recovery of files lost if Office crashes.
· Various small UI tweaks.
· Added Ukrainian translation.
April 21st, 2008· Added Deep Scan. Recuva can now search for files lost by the file system, which will work for reformatted and repartitioned drives.
· Improved speed and stability for image preview in Windows 2k/98.
· Several performance tweaks.
· Various UI tweaks and improvements.
March 19th, 2008· New Wizard to make recovery easier.
· New Thumbnails view.
· Added Scan All Drives feature.
· Fixed 'Cannot find path' issue.
· Fixed rare crash during scan in XP/2000.
· Optimized treeview speed with large numbers of files.
· Minor UI changes.
· Minor bug fixes and improvements.
February 25th, 2008· New file contents analysis.
· Tweaks to secure delete feature.
· Added filter by file type.
· Added status icon to the list view.
· Improved progress indication on large files.
· Several performance improvements.
· Minor tweaks and changes.
January 31st, 2008· Added Secure Deletion option (Win2k and newer).
· Added option to save settings to an INI file.
· Optimized error logging.
· Improved recovery of sparse files.
· Performance improvements.
· Various UI tweaks.
· Minor tweaks and changes.
December 7th, 2007· Fixed bug with fragmented MFT tables.
December 5th, 2007· Added Piriform styling to main dialog banner
· App now automatically checks for updates
· Incorporated scanning of $LogFile to NTFS scan
· Dynamic changing of language
· UI tweaks and improvements
· Minor bugs fixes
November 16th, 2007· Added image preview feature.
· Redesigned find box.
· Fixed sorting by state issue.
· Better handling of the cluster array (bad allocation issue).
· Fixed error during data processing (could freeze at 99%).
· Improved support of sparse files.
· Minor tweaks and fixes.
October 25th, 2007· Fully Unicode (requires unicows.dll with Windows 98/ME).
· Improved restoration of file names when restoring from the Recycle Bin.
· Better feedback for files that fail to be recovered.
· Threading issue fixed (affected removable FAT32 drives).
· Minor UI changes.
· Added Simplified Chinese.
· Minor tweaks and fixes.
October 2nd, 2007· Improvements to NTFS recovery.
· Improved handling of fragmented MFT.
· Fixed rare crash when using the filter.
· Improved accuracy of status information.
· Stability improvements.
· Various UI tweaks.
· Added Catalan and Norwegian translations.
· Localization fixes.
September 21st, 2007· 22 language translations added.
· Added support for Windows 98.
· Fixed cleartype font support.
· Tweaks to data run types (improves recovery rate for NTFS).
· Better handling of large numbers of files in list view.
· Stores users settings in the registry.
· Minor tweaks and fixes.
August 20th, 2007· Fixed issue that stopped Recuva working from a USB drive under XP64.
· Fixed highlighted items bug when sorting by columns.
· Fixed tree view tooltips in Win2000.
· Speedier recovery from thumbdrives under USB 1.1.
· Updated installer engine and detection routines.
· Several minor UI changes.
· Minor tweaks and fixes.
August 10th, 2007· Sorting is much faster with a large numbers of files.
· Fixed unhandled exception when closing in debug mode.
· Added handling of super short zero byte files that could cause the scan to hang.
· Filter text is now a whizzy grey color, when not in use.
· Removed previous selected item from group when drag selecting.
· Improved find rate in FAT32 system drives.
· Super duper optimized for NTFS system drives.
· Added full size Vista icon.
· Fixed issue that could delay selection rectangle redraw in themed Win2k3.
· Added 'Highlight Folder' option to right click menu in list view.
· Fixed banner icon drawing issue in 2000.
· Minor tweaks and fixes.
July 26th, 2007· Added drag select to list view
· Tree view now expands on double click
· Disabled right click menu in list view column headers
· Improvements to SD card compatibility
· Tick all column is now fixed width
· Double hard NTFS algorithm issue finally fixed
· Updated string table
· Fixed layout issue with 120dpi
· Fixed issue with right click menu
· Cleared issue that caused the tick boxes to not redraw
July 18th, 2007· Reinstated tree view - now with a filter
· Added 'Check all' column header
· Added status information after a scan
· Fixed issue that sometimes caused a crash in Win2k
· Remembers the previous save path
· Added drive letter to file paths
· Multiple XM types now supported
· Fixed memory leak that could cause a crash in Vista
· Fixed a status panel display bug that made it look odd in Win2k3
· Added drive icon to drop down list
· Performance improvements
July 10th, 2007· Massive increase on scan speed
· Re-architected memory management component
· Improvements to stability and file type handling
· Numerous UI changes
· Added live list filtering
· Enhanced support of removable USB drives
May 15th, 2007· Added option to restore folder structure
· Fixed issue with 98 which caused the options OK button to not be drawn
· Fixed issue that could cause the tick state to become confused in tree view
· Speed improvements to multiple selections in list view
· Fixed tab order in options window
· Memory handling improvements
· Minor bug fixes
April 26th, 2007· Fixed issue that caused the list/tree view to empty after a scan
· Added tooltip to tree view
· Optimized cluster count algorithm for NTFS 3.1
· Added visual indication for Debug mode (Recuva.exe /debug)
· Error log is now always created in debug mode
· Changes to multiple selection method
March 28th, 2007· Fixed issue with slow response when using Ctrl-A on a large number of files
· Improved handling of removable drives
· Fixed issue that caused improper entries in drive list
· Improved searching of MFT mirror entries
· Minor UI tweaks
March 23rd, 2007· Memory management improvements.
· Ctrl A now selects all items in the list view.
· Dynamic handling of removable drives.
· Added warning if you try to recover to the same drive as the source files.
· Tweaked detection of non-NT processor specifications.
· Changes to initial memory allocation algorithm.
· Interface tweaks.
March 7th, 2007· Fixed crash error when scanning.
· Fixed errors in filtering text.
· Fixed errors while recovering files one after the other.
· Fixed issues with Win2k.
· Updated the method for reading volume free space.
· General improvements to memory handling.
· Fixes to memory management in treeview mode.
· Updated the size of the options/about dialog and controls.
· Added "Ignored files" count display to the status.
February 19th, 2007· Improvements to memory management when handling a large number of files
· Better handling of bad MFT entries
· Even more improvements to the error tracing
· Added 'About' tab to options dialog
· Tweaks to recovery algorithms (related to hidden system files)
February 5th, 2007· Added 'Date modified' column
· Added Volume label to drive list
· Fixed bug that caused app to hang on exit in Vista
· Added some more error logging
· Fixed odd bug on 2000 that caused the icon to go all weird
· Fixed scan halting issues on some versions of XP
· Removed dependency on shlwapi.dll
· Various Vista fixes
· Improved stability on Windows XP x64
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