disaster. How do I restore saved registry info?

CCleaner for Windows
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First time this has ever happened. Ran CCleaner earlier today, including the registry cleaner. Oddly, there was a mess of stuff found in the registry. CC saved the backup, then deleted all the junk. A few minutes ago, I tried to access my LastPass program, which keeps track of passwords and other data, and discovered all my passwords and everything are gone. The program is empty.

Question: how do I restore the registry backup? I've read all the Help stuff I can find. It all tells me how to save the backup file but nothing on how to restore it. Appreciate your help.

tbone

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Search the forums for LastPass, there's been a few people having problems with it while using CCleaner.

As for restoring the registry view this page:

http://www.piriform....ve-run-ccleaner

Note that depending upon the problems you're having you may have to use a recent System Restore Point if the .REG backup alone doesn't fix everything.

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Thanks for the tip. Everything is back. But that leaves me with a registry with a mess of junk in it. Must I stop using CCleaner, at least the Registry part of it? Wonder why this happened now. I've been using CC for over a year with LastPass and have never had a problem. I'm using version 3.02 of CC. Is this the latest version available? I'll ask LastPass about conflicts they might be aware of with CC, and will try to update the LP version.

Again, thanks for you prompt response and help.

tbone

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please follow the advice in my signature. 3.02 is VERY old the current version as of this post is v3.19.1721

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Must I stop using CCleaner, at least the Registry part of it?

You can input what you want CCleaner to Exclude either Drive/File/Folder/Registry Key by going into:

Options->Exclude

Also don't forget to untick any program cleaning you don't want done located in the large Cleaner button.

Wonder why this happened now. I've been using CC for over a year with LastPass and have never had a problem.

CCleaner is updated historically about once a month, and sometimes will include more thorough cleaning of a program. You can keep track of those changes in the Announcements area of the forum, or by viewing the change log on FileHippo.com for any particular version.