If you find yourself recovering deleted files, Vista has some good features to protect against the loss of your data.
There is an option in Vista Business and Vista Ultimate that is called "Shadow Copy".
This feature works by making a copy of each document that you create.
If you ever lose your original, you can open the shadow copy and choose to save it as the original.
This is a good feature, there are some other ways for recovering deleted files, Visa is similar to most operating systems in this respect.
Your desk top recycling bin should be the place where you being to look for lost or deleted data.
You can look for your data by opening the recycle bin folder.
If you can locate your file, the next thing you will do is locate the document and highlight it.
Right click on the document and choose the restore option.
This will put your deleted file back where it belongs.
Your recycle bin contains everything that you have deleted and does not automatically empty.
You actually need to empty the bin to remove all contents manually.
One safeguard for recovering files Vista features is the fact that the recycle bin does not automatically empty.
Still another option for recovering deleted files Vista features is system restore.
You will use this feature to set your computer back to a time where the file existed before it was actually deleted.
This is almost like having a time machine.
You can restore your system to the time when the file was created or saved originally.
There are people who are very worried about how they will locate their data and they feel the need to take it to a repair shop.
This option is going to be costly as well as time consuming.
Using data recovery software is a much better and more economical option.