Software to retrieve deleted files What you need to know about Right-click menu

As we all know that we can undo the deletion, move, copy by right-click menu to cancel the operation. It will help us to reduce the data loss and we do not need to take other data recovery methods. And it’s common for us to have mistaken operations when using the Context menu. Such as choose the option of Cut, copy, or delete by mistake so that to cause unconscious data loss. There are many options on the Context menu, it appears when you right click a file or the desktop. It enables you to manage the file on hard drive. If you want to have your customized context menu, you can achieve it by using a third-party free software or edit the registry.

1. How to edit the registry

Open the registry by press Windows key + R and type “regedit”, press enter. Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT>*>shellex>ContextMenuHandlers. In the folder of ContextMenuHandlers, it lists all the applications which display in your context menu. You can choose to delete, remove or disable this folder.

The context menu for desktop is in different location, you can find it in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT> Directory>Background>shell.

2. Edit with Right-click enhancer program

There are many free software that can help you to edit the context menu. It will let you to add applications to the right-click menu.

How to recover lost files by shortcut?

If you lost data for mistaken operation, you only can undo it before you have other operations. If you copy another files after you click copy, the former file will be overwritten. However, you still have way to recover the lost file. The first choice is to restore from backups or the previous versions if there have. If you cannot recover from the backup and previous version, the only choice is try recover with software. There are lots of data recovery software on the Internet, not all data recovery software can restore your lost files. Some software especially the free trail data recovery software have limitation in recovery size and have relatively lower success rate.

To successfully retrieved the files, you need to avoid data overwritten. Data overwritten will occurs when keep using the computer after data loss. If you do not to increase data loss, you should be careful after that, avoid write new data and format the hard drive until you have restored your data.

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