Free File Recovery

Free File Recovery is an easy to use application that can help you recover accidentally removed files.

If you're a tech-savvy user, you probably know that data recovery products are usually very complex pieces of software, with tons of options and built-in utilities.

This isn't the case of Free File Recovery though, so the application may really surprise you. Mostly aimed at rookies who don't have the computer skills to deal with more advanced apps, Free File Recovery groups all features in just a single screen for one-click access.

You have nothing to configure, so users' job comes down to picking the drive to be scanned and picking the files to be recovered.

Recoverable files are all displayed in a large panel in the main window, alongside information such as name, path, creation date, last access date, last write date and file size.

Sadly, there's no file preview window, so you can't see the items before starting the recovery process. What's more, the recovery engine doesn't seem to be so effective as others, as it failed to detect some items during our testing.

Free File Recovery is however blazing fast and it gets along very well with all Windows versions released so far. It doesn't require administrator privileges and it doesn't hamper system performance in any way.

To sum up, Free File Recovery deserves a try, but experienced users are very likely to be disappointed. It has a bit of everything, including a clean interface, a great amount of information on the found files and a very fast scanning engine.