NirSoft has released ShadowCopyView and PreviousFilesRecovery, free tools designed to help you browse Windows’ volume shadow copies and restore whatever files you need. ShadowCopyView lists all volume shadow copies on your PC, the hard drive snapshots created by Windows Vista and later. You’re able to browse the older versions of files and folders contained in these snapshots, and restore anything interesting to your hard drive. Windows allows you to do something similar with its "Previous Versions" feature, but ShadowCopyView may display more shadow copies, and it allows copying system files even when User Account Control is turned on. PreviousFileRecovery is a simpler program… [Continue Reading]