Deleted account with files, now want files back

I deleted a user account without changing "Delete the files" to "Keep the files". Now I remember some files I should have kept, that were in c:\users\the_deleted_user\some_folder. Is there a way to recover them? They're too new for the weekly auto backup. I tried to run a few undelete programs
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinspector.html
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
http://glary-undelete.en.softonic.com/
but none can find the C drive or any files. (Or I didn't run them correctly.) I wonder if there's still any chance to get the files back. Thanks.
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Thanks. I accepted your reply as solution. But actually it didn't help in my case. I just acknowledge that your advice is the best possible. I have a feeling that Windows7's deletion of an account *with files* deliberately garbles the data that account had to the degree beyond recovery. I used the tool you suggested to recover some of the files successfully. But they're all very old, and were able to be recovered by the auto backup anyway. None of the files created after the weekend were recovered.

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