Recover REPLACED files - a myth?

From: Max Shulmann (MetalBlade@prodigy.net)
Date: 05/16/02 

From: "Max Shulmann" <MetalBlade@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 00:22:16 GMT

Am I able to recover file replaced by a newer version (same
filename/extention) under WindowsXP?

Any file, not just "protected" system. I heard such functionality to be
added as early as in Win95 many years ago, but I don't see it. Recovering
deleted items is easy either from RecycleBin or using third-party Undelete
if RecycleBin was also emptied (which is foolish heheh...), but how do you
extract that precious document.txt replaced by the like-named document.txt??

On my former college UNIX workstations, replaced files are NEVER physically
deleted but rather fillename automatically appends "%" at the end and new
(same) filename is created. Repeated overwrite will add %% to original, %
to second one, and create yet another new (same) filename; and so on...
Only if you delete the appended ones old version will cease to exist - heh,
you can still recover from RecycleBin! Is there anything like recovering
replaced filenames going to be offered with Windows??

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