Favorites

CCleaner for Windows
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I'm new and have a question. Which box do I uncheck so that my Favorites will not be rearranged (or affected) in alphabetical order when I run CCleaner? Thank you

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This question keeps popping up, and I don't actually know if anyone's sorted it yet.

You could try excluding the reg key mentioned in this previous post by going to "CCleaner\Options\Exclude\Add Registry".

Make sure you don't include the hive name (HKCU) in the second box.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showto...st&p=110543

This was for IE7.

If there is another fix I've missed, don't hang back on posting it anyone, as I'm not sure unchecking any boxes would make a difference to this.

Hope that helps.

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Deselect Cleaner > Windows > Advanced > Menu Order Cache

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I'm reading the poster as meaning IE favourites, and not the Start Menu order, as an IE Favourites rearranging problem has been posted about a few times before.

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I'm reading the poster as meaning IE favourites

So do I. 'Menu Order Cache' affects both Start Menu and IE Favorites (intentionally or otherwise). I've tested it.

EDIT: I did a little digging: Menu Order Cache deletes the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder and its subkeys Favorites (which, as you correctly identified, is IE Favorites) and Start Menu2.

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Thank you for that Glenn.

I knew that reg key was significant, but I've never seen anything to indicate, or even give a clue, to the fact that it is connected in any way to the "Menu Order Cache".

I couldn't think why CCleaner would be touching it at all. I always checked my daughters favourites in IE whenever this problem raised it's head, and it never changed after running CCleaner.

But of course I've never had "Menu Order Cache" checked for cleaning.

On this occasion Glenn, I make no apology for the contradiction, as it resulted in the clarification, for me, as to why that reg key is messed with. Nice one.

:)

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I don't use 'Menu Order Cache' myself but for a complete solution to this ...

I tested your suggestion and it works well. You can exclude either the 'Favorites' or the 'Start Menu2' subkey without affecting the cleaning of the other. (Tested in Windows XP; may not be valid in another OS.)