I have a HP desktop computer Windows 10 free upgraded. It worked fine until the September 2016 upgrade by Microsoft. HP did weeks ago an update of their printer software and blocked re-filled cartridges as well as deleted restore points going back to an earlier date. All in all, my computer started funny with every step to get back to workable stage but last week everything crashed. I have to go back to Windows 7 and use the recovery disk. Knowing that all the files are still on the hard disk I found Recuva Professional and did the scan. English is not my mother tongue, i'm 76 years old and not a computer geek to understand a lot of computer related issues. My problem is that I do have literally 1,099,138 files scanned sitting on my computer and according the information, I should tick on the boxes with the green dot for later restore. After a brief check that would mean, I have to tick about 500,000 times. Question: has anyone experience how to deal with that with a more time saving follow up? I would appreciate very much any help.
Hi Varn,
As to quickly selecting files, you can click on the top most box in the column header.
In your case, in the column of filenames, it has a header row right at the top and to the left of that you'll find a tickable box.
Ticking that will select all the found files.
Another quick way to select multiple files is; click on the first one to select it (it turns blue), then find the end of the group of files and while holding down the Shift key, then click that last file in the group.
That selects everything in-between. Called a contiguous group.
You can now click any of the box at the start of any of the selected rows and all will get selected.
If the group is not contiguous, that is, the files to select are all over the place, click the first one, then while holding down the Ctrl key, keep clicking the others you want.
Then clicking the tickable box at the start of any of those rows will again select all of those files.
Hi MTA,
Thank you so much for your reply and help. Excellent! Highest rating I can give. Your information worked as you have set out. During the study and trying out your follow ups, I have also found, that going to the header "State" and after click that on, it will select all coloured dots together. That means I have no dots all over the place but all in green, than orange and red which solved the problem. Thanks again!
Are there any instruction manuals available which would explain in more detail or readable and understanding manner for computer users like me?
Varn
no sweat Varn, glad to help.
as you would have seen, I sadly gave no advice on your recover situation as it's not my area of expertise.
being ever so slightly ODC with my backups, I have never had a need to recover a file, just get it from a backup.
good luck with it though, but if I could offer some advice, if the data being recovered is important (family photos, financial records etc) and with your self-diagnosed skill level you might want to either consider professional help, and sadly that can be expensive, or maybe get a neighbour, friend, or family member to assist.
as to instruction manuals, back in my youth there were those weird wads of glued paper things we called books but they are now superceded by Dr Google.
let your fingers do the walking and make the internet you newest best friend.