Jaxom2251

I can't thank you all enough. With much regret at not doing proper back-ups, I've decided not to do either a repair or restore. I will take note of the back-up software that has been recommend to me. As I mentioned in my other post, I must treat my laptop as a buisness tool and take care of it accordingly. I have a highly recommended Internet secruity program installed now. Since I mentioned that I've been using cCleaner for longer then I can remmeber, that will be another on on the top of my list of "must have" software I'd be more then willing to pay for.

MTA.... Darn it! I wasn't aware that restore points only included system files. What's your thoughts on doing a repair, or would that only save system files? re your signature: I've been VERY lax on doing backups. Since I'm already using the free versions of cCleaner (and have been for years) and now Recova, does your company make a backup software? Since I'm now using my laptop for business, I must treat it like any business would.

Right now I'm between contract jobs, and I had just saved several links to websites I was going apply to. Grabing at straws here, on 2/17 there's a restore point as pointed out by cCleaner. This is the day before I was hit with the Trojan. FYI, the culprit that caused Edge to not to connect...a VPN that loaded at Windows boot, but I wasn't logging into all the time. Once I removed that from startup everything worked fine. So where's what I'm thinking, use restore point, immmediately re-install Kaspersky Internet Securty, then run cCleaner, making sure I do NOT include that file again? Oddest part about this, is after I had ran cCleaner, I only temporarily lost my favorites folder. After running it, I had to reboot, Edge came back as if I had just installed it. I had to repin to tool bar. When I moved it back into place where I had it, then opened it again, all my favorites were there. It wasn't until I had to reboot again later (I found some video and audio drivers needed upgrading) that Edge again went back to being like a new install and I can't find the favorites folder.

I've had one really rotten week. Starting with being hit by a Trojan last Saturday. After cleaning that mess up, I started having an issue with Windows 10 running Edge. I work from home and am on the hunt for my next contract job. Rather frustrating when Edge couldn't find or connect to the internet, yet Steam could? So I ran cCleaner, cleared out cookies, cache's ect. Then "fixed" my registry.... Edge is working fine now, but I lost ALL my favorites!!! And I need those back asap! So I asked a bunch of folks over at Tenforum about what to do next and one person recommended I use Recuva to find this file.... C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\ User\Default\Favorites Question 1) "yourusername" needs to be changed to my name on this system. What about the word "user" right before \default\favorites? Question 2) Can I use wild cards instead of the whole link? Such as *\user\default\favorites? Question 3) Which is more efficient, run a deep scan, then go to advance then copy and past that file into search box on the upper right tool bar? OR Can I run the scan to find a specific file? If so how? ​What all in all, what is most best way to find and possible recover this file? A deep scan takes 4.5 hours on my system, time I could be spending looking for and applying for jobs. I need to find out one way or another, so as to plan how I shall proceed.