Sunday, September 07, 2008

Unlock Vista Shadow Copies with ShadowExplorer

Certain versions of Microsoft Vista (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate) offer a utility called Shadow Copy. This allows the user to right-click a file and choose to "Restore Previous Versions" - a very handy thing to be able to do when things have gone horribly wrong!

Did you know that lesser versions of Vista (Home Basic and Home Premium) also store previous versions of files but do not provide a mechanism to access them?

Thankfully, there is a free utility called ShadowExplorer that can set this data free.

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