So I ran CCleaner, free version, and it took out numerous things that weren't selected... such as the entirety of Microsoft Office 2016. Is there any way to possibly undo any of this?
It looks like it may have also somehow taken out my previous recovery points as well.
I haven't rebooted the system as now I'm worried if it will even boot back into windows.
I installed "Recuva" and the list it finds is huge
What operating system are you using?
Did you change any of the defaults when you ran CCleaner?
Did you do a registry clean?
Microsoft Office 2016 can be repair installed to fully restore it.
Windows 10 64-bit. My checked off were:
Edge: Cookies, download history, last download location, session, recently typed urls
IE: Temp int. files, history, cookies, recently typed urls, index.dat files, last download location
Windows Explorer: Recent documents, Run, Other explorer mru's, thumbnail cache, taskbar jump lists
System: empty recycle bin, temporary files, clipboard, memory dumbs, chkdsk file fragments, windows log files, windows error reporting
Advanced: old prefetch data, menu order cache, tray notifications cache, user assist history, old windows installation
Google Chrome: cookies, download history, last download location
Windows store: bing news. skype metro app
Applications: mcafee antivirus, ms office picture manager, ms onedrive
multimedia: adobe flash player, windows media player
utilities: 7-zip, nvidia install files
windows: ms management console, ms search, ms wordpad, regedit
Of that list, I'm not sure of anything else I might have changed besides unchecking internet cache and history, and old windows installation (as I had already recovered the various docs etc. out of it)
The text file generated by recuva, when compressed in 7z is over 4mb or I'd include it here