The free version is great for those who want to test the software before purchasing, and annual subscriptions are very competitively priced. Ultimately, Piriform Recuva is up there with the best data recovery programs we’ve tested. More specific questions can be asked in the active community forum and an impressive selection of short video tutorials is also available.

The FAQ section contains answers to popular questions, and the technical documentation pages provide a detailed overview of the software. Highlight one or both and use the Copy To option and they'll extract and copy to wherever you want.There are also four different self-help resources.

Just use 7Zip's right mouse context menu option: 'Open Archive' and it will display the installer's contents including the two EXE file. However a simple alternative if you do not want the hassle of installing/uninstalling it is actually use 7Zip or other compression archive tool like WinRAR or PeaZip. But since most here will likely already have done that getting hold of the. That means installing it in the normal way first. The only downside to this is method is that you have extract the program's EXE. Then simply type in portable.dat as the name of the file and save. Simply use the normal 'Save' option but change the Save Type to 'All Files'. exe or 64.exe directly or create desktop shortcuts. exe or 64.exe (for 64-bit OS), and optionally Lang directory to a new folder, name of your choice.Ĭreate a blank text file using Notepad in the same folder and paste the following:-Īnd save* it as portable.dat and just put that in the same folder dat text file to the program's EXE.ĭownload the installer and extract. The fact it is you can create a portable version of, AFAIK, any of these Piriform programs: Defraggler, Speccy, CCleaner, Recuva simply by adding a. Some information has not been added here which should have been, particularly since the links to the portable versions have mysteriously disappeared over the last few years.

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