Pidove

I come bearing news! This morning I saw the post about checkdisk recovery and I figured it was worth a shot before I refreshed so I went ahead and set it up while I went back to bed. Five hours later, my internet is functioning normally and my system is running much smoother! Even smoother than before I used CCleaner. So my thinking is that maybe this was a hardware malfunction that coincidentally happened when I used CCleaner or whatever I deleted started the trail of dominoes. Whatever the case may be, my laptop is functioning properly now! Thank you all very, very much for your help and guidance, I really do appreciate it! I was really at wit's end, haha. I will definitely check that one out! I have Spybot S&D to make backups of my registry now but I think another form of backing up everything else is a good idea, too! So thank you very much for the recommendation.

Thank you for your response! I did try this (in addition to sfc scan) and it brought back the all-clear but my registry still is not allowing me to merge the backup. I have decided to go ahead with the refresh because I got lucky enough to find my Adobe Photoshop key! So now I have no reservations about doing a refresh. Now it's a matter of fighting with 0.19 mbps upload speed to backup my files before I do so. I'll update if anything changes or if the refresh, for whatever reason, doesn't work.

Thank you! I guess I'll turn on some music and begin the laborious task of backing up everything into ZIPs and moving them so that I can begin seeing what other options I may look into until I hear some other input; I suppose there's no time like the present to back things up, even if it doesn't come to having to reset everything. I suspect the .reg file issue has something to do with Windows 8 - I've seen guides for rectifying the issue that work with all OS before W8 but very few that work for W8. Definitely no intentions to play with the registry after this, lol! Takes one time to learn one's lesson. I am considering doing a 'System Refresh' which from what I understand would set me back to Factory Default including a clean and functional registry without displacing my pictures, music, etc but it would remove all installed programs including my art programs I use for my work (one of which is Adobe Photoshop) and I'd really like to avoid having to do that for as long as possible. I've lost my Adobe key and I don't think it would have let me re-use it anyways.

Thank you for your response! I had gone ahead and run the repair program for the CNBJ2530 files and it did fix them, I now get a clean bill of health when running /scannow. However, I am still unable to edit my registry as expected and I cannot rollback either. It still says there's corruption even when there is none reported in the scans. So I'm not sure on what all that means. I am running Windows 8.1, yes. Laptop, about 1 year and a few months old, HDD. The .reg file was in my SkyDrive only because it is saved there automatically (I thought it was in my normal documents, I guess when I chose where it went, I saw 'Documents' and didn't realize I was in the SkyDrive directory) but I've moved it to other folders without success, too. I ran my laptop in safe mode as asked, without networking (to ensure that there wasn't a network process that was keeping me from using the backup) and it still refused to let me use the backup even when I set the permissions on all of the hives.

Thank you for your response! I did try this as I had a restore point from the day before I used CCleaner but it gave me a strange error that it was unable to do this as my C drive was corrupt which wasn't possible, as my C drive is not corrupt. So I cannot go this option, either. Edit: I should mention that I did check my C drive by using the 'Check for Errors' feature in its properties panel but it brought back the all-clear. Edit#2: I ran sfc in CMD and apparently there IS corruption of the file CNBJ2530; I honestly think it has nothing to do with the CCleaner but it could be why I am not able to fix my registry. I am not 100% on that of course but I am trying to fix that problem first; I'm running DISM now as per instructions I found elsewhere because apparently this is common in Windows 8. I'll update again when I know how this goes! I do still welcome and appreciate insight into this whole issue, if anyone has something to contribute!

Hello, Yesterday, I used the Registry Cleaner option (Which I don't think I'll be playing with again, though I do love CCleaner for its usual purpose!) in CCleaner and I think I may have deleted something connected to my networking - specifically my upload. Luckily I do have a backup from before I deleted things but it isn't working. I have tried double-clicking the backup, I've tried importing it in regedit (As admin and without, neither work) and I've tried using PSTools to try and merge it back - nothing works! Every time I try I get the following error: I've tried putting the .reg file in different locations and that doesn't help, either; I've checked permissions on the .reg file and it is full rights for my user (as I am the only user on the computer). I'm really not sure what to do now. It is seriously impairing my internet, though, and I'd really like to be able to restore my registry keys I deleted to see if that is where my problem stems from. I am running Windows 8.1 and CCleaner version 5.03.5128 (64-bit). I can supply the .reg file if that's needed - I've never encountered this sort of thing and I honestly should not have messed with the Registry Cleaner without reading all the entries, I realize this is entirely my fault. But I wish to find a way that I may utilize my backups if at all possible. Thank you so much in advance!