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FOUND ACTUAL SOLUTION Chrome saves search engine data (alternate search engines, default search engines) in an SQLite formatted file (Found at (WINDOWS XP) C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data (WINDOWS XP) Vista/7 C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data Vista/7 NOTE: THESE FILES ARE HIDDEN. YOU MUST SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS If you look here you see that in the newest version of CCleaner (3.16.1666) the team "improved google chrome history cleaning". They must have included the file located at (WINDOWS XP) C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data (WINDOWS XP) Vista/7 C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data Vista/7 WORKAROUND HERE 1. open CCleaner. 2. Go to options. 3. Go to Exclude. 4. Add--> File: (WINDOWS XP) C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data (WINDOWS XP) Vista/7 C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data Vista/7 To CCleaner Dev's: If you could, in the next release, please remove that file from the list of things that gets deleted that would be great.