Avast Cleanup Deleted My Files
If Avast Cleanup deletes your files, you can try recovering them with recovery software like Recuva, Disk Drill, etc.
Here are the guidelines to recover files deleted by Avast Cleanup.
- Download any recovery software such as Recuva on your computer from the manufacturer’s official site.
- Here, the steps for recovering deleted files correspond to doing so with the user interface of Recuva. However, these steps should be similar for other recovery software since the recovery procedure is similar across all these recovery tools.
- Open the Recuva application installer that you downloaded from the official site on your computer.
- Click the T&C agreement button and then click the affirmative action buttons on the following screens.
- Wait until Recuva is installed on your computer and then launch it.
- The Recuva Wizard’s welcome screen appears. Click Next.
- Select the type of files to be recovered. Since the Avast application deleted several types of files, click the ‘All Files’ radio button. Click Next.
- Click the ‘Enable Deep Scan’ radio button and then click Start.
- Recuva performs a deep scan on your computer and displays the scan results on the screen.
- Click the checkboxes beside all the files that need to be recovered and then click Recover.
- Recuva prompts you to select a destination folder for saving these recovered files. Set it and then click OK. The destination folder will now open on your computer.
Avast Internet Security Cleanup
Here are the guidelines to use Avast Internet Security Cleanup to optimize your computer.
- Launch Avast Internet Security on your computer and click the Scan button on the left.
- Choose the ‘Scan for performance issues’ option from the list.
- The Avast application scans the computer for system issues and displays them on the screen. Click the Details link.
- Click ‘Optimize my PC’ and wait until the ‘Cleaning complete’ message appears on the screen. This completes the Avast Internet Security cleanup
