This excellent freeware program for recovering deleted files is now out of Beta stage.

The developer includes the Yahoo! toolbar in the installer but you can uninstall it later. A trick is to install it and grab the files copied to the installed folder. The are no external dependencies and only the settings are stored in the registry.

This way you can have the program without the toolbar and without any installer at all for any future use. I make my own custom MSI installer using the installed files. I can’t share it. I would violate the license agreement by doing so.

Recuva 1.16.333 is the final version. Latest changes:

• 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.

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