Your Windows folders. Remembered.
Version 1.7.0
Automatic folder backup, versioning, and restore after a Windows reinstall.
Portable • Open Source • GPL-3.0 Licensed
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You know the feeling.
Windows is fresh. Your apps are reinstalled. Then you launch your favorite game...
Your saves are gone. Your important folders are gone.
Your application settings? Gone.
Hours of progress and years of customization disappear because Windows doesn't protect those folders.
LRGEX Restore remembers them, keeps them synchronized, and restores them to their exact original locations after you reinstall Windows.
- Choose a folder — game saves, app settings, projects, or anything important.
- LRGEX Restore backs it up automatically — changes are compressed and stored in your backup folder on your sync schedule.
- Reinstall Windows — without worrying about lost files.
- Restore with one click — every folder returns to its original location automatically.
Set it once. Forget about it. Your files are there when you need them.
- One-click protection — right-click any folder and choose "Add to LRGEX Restore".
- Works with any cloud — OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Mega, iCloud, NAS, Syncthing, or even a local drive.
- Automatic synchronization — changes are backed up in the background.
- Built-in version history — restore previous snapshots whenever you need them.
- Automatic restore — after reinstalling Windows, missing folders are restored to their original paths.
- Portable — a single 17 MB executable. No installer. No dependencies.
- Automatic backup — new and changed files back up to your cloud automatically
- Snapshot versioning — changes are captured as a snapshot on each sync run. Roll back any folder to a previous snapshot (depth set by Max Versions)
- Auto-restore — after a format, missing folders are restored automatically
- Drive-letter healing — if your drives get different letters after a format, paths are fixed automatically and backups follow
- Right-click integration — right-click any folder in Explorer to protect it
- Configurable sync interval — 1 minute or more, your choice
- Exclusions — skip app-locked subfolders that cause false errors
- Export/Import — move your folder list to a new PC
- Health lamp — live status: green (safe), amber (syncing), red (problem)
- Auto-update — the app checks for new versions and updates itself
- Delete one file: it leaves the backup. The old version lives in versioning. Does NOT come back on restore.
- Delete the entire folder: if auto-restore is ON, auto-restore brings it all back.
Every item in Tools, what it does, and when to use it:
| Tool | What it does | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Junction Health Check | Lists every protected folder with its backup size, last-backup age, and source status — a full checkup of your protection | Anytime you want to verify everything is healthy |
| Find Game Saves… | Scans your PC's known save locations (Windows Saved Games, Documents\My Games, WB Games, Steam game folders, Microsoft Store saves) and offers to protect what it finds. Games already synced by Steam Cloud are skipped automatically | After installing the app — find your game saves in one click instead of hunting for them manually |
| Repair Missing Folders… | If a protected folder's drive was replaced, reformatted, or its path can't be found, this lets you pick the folder's new location — the backup follows automatically | After a format where a drive letter changed in a way auto-healing couldn't resolve, or after swapping a dead drive |
| Set Sync Interval… | How often the scheduled backup runs — from 1 minute to 31 days (default: 24 hours) | If you want more or less frequent backups |
| Set Max Versions… | How many historical snapshots to keep per folder (default: 2) | If you want deeper history to roll back to |
| Manage Exclusions… | Folders/files by name that are skipped during backup (e.g. cache dirs, lock files that cause false errors) | If the sync log shows "[SKIP] locked/unreadable" for files you don't care about |
| View Sync Log | The full technical log of every sync cycle: what was backed up, what was skipped and why, heal/migration events | When diagnosing behavior or checking what happened in the last sync |
| Export Configuration | Saves your folder list and settings to a file | Before a format (belt-and-suspenders alongside your cloud copy) or to clone your setup to another PC |
| Import Configuration | Loads a previously exported configuration | On a new PC, to restore your folder list in one step |
| Right-Click Sync (toggle) | Enables/disables the "Add to LRGEX Restore" entry in Windows Explorer's right-click menu — ON by default | If you don't want the context-menu entry, or want it back after disabling |
| Unlink from Windows… | Removes the scheduled task, right-click menu, and registry entries — full clean uninstall of Windows integration | When you want to stop using the app or reset its Windows hooks |
- Download
LRGEXRestore.exe - Run it — pick a home folder inside your cloud service (OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.) so your files survive a format. Local folder works too, but won't survive a format.
- Open the app from the home folder
- Right-click any folder you want to protect — select "Add to LRGEX Restore" (menu is enabled automatically; toggle via Tools → Right-Click Sync)
Your folders are now backed up automatically on your sync schedule.
- Reinstall your cloud service and let it download
- Open
LRGEXRestore.exefrom your home folder - Click "Restore Saved" — or enable auto-restore per folder to make it automatic
Every folder goes back to its exact original path.
- Windows 10/11
- A cloud service recommended (survives a format). Local folder works but won't survive a format.
Windows Defender may flag LRGEX Restore as a false positive (Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.B!ml / Behavior:Win32/Persistence.A!ml). The exe has been scanned on VirusTotal with no detections at the time of scanning. Defender's machine learning flags the app because it:
- Copies itself to your chosen home folder (self-copy)
- Creates a scheduled task for automatic syncing (persistence)
- Registers a right-click context menu (registry persistence)
These are the app's core features, not malware behavior. The source code is fully open under GPL-3.0.
To fix: add the home folder to Defender exclusions:
- Settings → Privacy & Security → Windows Security → Virus & threat protection
- Manage settings → Add or remove exclusions → Add an exclusion → Folder
- Select your LRGEX Restore home folder
GNU General Public License v3. See LICENSE and TRADEMARK.md.