I second to this @Clean Me Please. I have been using CCleaner for like ages now. I am a member of yahoo answers and have recommended a lot of people to try recuva without testing it properly...
I tested it today to see that it really does not find the file specially under the my documents or downloads
for example : C:\users\abcd\downloads
If i delete a file here and also from recycle bin. Recuva should find it when i am giving the path to this folder and askin it to find it. The results ends up into nothing or no files found, it should find something with a changed name or something
To add to this i did a search in C and it was not able to find this folder downloads, is this some mapped folder in Win 7
Am i searcing in the wrong place.
If you see in my screenshot, under users it only find the APP DATA
PS: There isnt any way to give search path manually i think that should be added