I´am sometimes deleting files holding down the shift-key without thinking much about it. It happens that I delete a file that I did not want to be deleted at that moment because it is still needed on my system. A very easy way to restore files that have been accidentally deleted is Restoration which is a nice little freeware application that scans your hard disk and lists all files than can be either partially or fully restored.
Running Restoration might give you a shock at first use, more than 11000 files were listed on my C: drive that could be restored. That´s a lot of information: I advise everyone to use a file shredder like Eraser for sensitive files and folders. Taking a look at all the 11000 files searching for the files that I would like to restore would take a lot of time, Restoration therefor offers some methods to narrow down the results.
You can sort the results by name, original folder, size and date modified which helps a lot if you know the name of the file or the folder it was in. Restoration also offers the option to enter a partial file name or extension and display only those. This is actually the best option to reduce the amount of files that are displayed. If you are searching for a text document you could make Restoration display all .txt files.
Restoration does not install itself on your system, uninstall and run it from the location that you uninstalled it into. The size is only a little bit more than 400k.
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Great suggestions ;-). I delete stuff accidentally all the time.