I set by recycle bin up to not store files but to delete them immediately. I deleted some items off of my desktop and in the process deleted something I did not mean to delete. Is there any way without using some type of utility to recover these files and find the one I did not mean to delete? Thanks Noel Taylor

System restore may work. Ive deleted items from my deksotp in the past and found them again after a restoring. You might change the recyle bin behavoir so that it doesnt completely delete items.

Drive Rescue is free and it works. http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue Here's some directions for using the program. 1. Install it then click on Drive Rescue in the start menu. When the screen pops up click on the life preserver icon to open the program. 2. Click the button next to 'recover deleted files'. 3. Under the Logical Drive tab click on your C drive to highlight it then click ok. 4. When the screen opens the Deleted section in the left pane should already be expanded. 5. Scroll down and click on the folder you deleted the files from. 6. In the right pane, all the files with green icons were deleted. Find the one you want to recover (if it's there) and right click on it and select 'save to'. Then browse to and select the folder you want to save it to and click ok. Do that for all the files you want to recover then exit the program.