OnClick Utilities (Freeware)
August 2025
2BrightSparks Pte Ltd.
http://www.2BrightSparks.com/


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SUPPORT
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The online help file is available here:

  http://www.2brightsparks.com/onclick/help/

You can download the help for all the OnClick Utilities from:

  http://www.2brightsparks.com/assets/software/OnClickHelp_Setup.exe

Visit our dedicated support area for articles and FAQs:

  http://support.2brightsparks.com/

Only PatchOnClick and HashOnClick can be installed on Windows Server Core installations.


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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT UndeleteOnClick
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It is not possible to guarantee that UndeleteOnClick will be successful in recovering your deleted files. If you wish to recover a deleted file now we strongly recommend that you do not read, write, change or delete any more files, or defragment your drive.

When Windows "deletes" a file, it is not physically removed. The file is still on disk, and may be recoverable, however, Windows makes the space occupied by the file available for writing. If you create a new file, or save a changed file, it may write over the 'deleted' file's space, thus destroying it permanently. Defragmenting your drive may also overwrite the deleted files.

Be aware that because of the reasons stated above, a file may appear to be recoverable but may turn out to be corrupted or unreadable. This is not a shortfall in the performance of UndeleteOnClick but a result of the way the Windows operating system handles deleted files.

To undelete files, follow these very important steps:

1. The first and most important thing to do is to stop using the computer you deleted the file from. Do not reboot it or switch it off. Do not save your files. Do not create any new files. Do not use your email program or a web browser.

2. If you have UndeleteOnClick already installed on your computer then run it and undelete the file. If UndeleteOnClick is on a an external drive, USB key, CD/DVD, network share, etc. then insert the external media and run UndeleteOnClick from it.

3. If you do not have UndeleteOnClick installed, on external media, or on a network share, then go to another computer and copy it to external media or a network share that the other computer can access. You can then go back to step 2.

4. If you do not have another computer you can use, and do not have it installed, on external media, or on a network share, then you will need to download it and run it. If possible download it to a different partition from where the file was deleted.

You will need Administrator rights to undelete files.


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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT DeleteOnClick
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Due to the way solid-state drives (SSD's) work it is not possible to securely delete files on them. To securely delete all the contents of an SSD drive you must use software created by the manufacturer of the drive.

