My laptop died and has been replaced. I have installed ccleaner pro on the new laptop. Now, I am trying to find a way to bring over my ccleaner settings from a system backup of the old laptop. I would like to get my cookie exclusions at the very least. Any ideas? I never created a .ini file on the old system. I have not found anything in the user profile or program folder. Any help would be appreciated even if it is just a "you're outta luck." Thanks!
43 minutes ago, MWETulsa said:<div class="ipsQuote_contents ipsClearfix" data-gramm="false"> <p> I never created a .ini file on the old system </p> </div>
then you're pretty out of luck, unless you have a program that can read the registry of the dead computer. Sorry
Just found my answer.
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Get settings from WIndows registry hive on a backup
<ul><li> <div> <span>Started regedit.exe</span> </div> </li> <li> <div> <span>Highlight HKEY_USERS</span> </div> </li> <li> <div> <span>File>Load hive</span> </div> <ul><li> <div> <span>Navigate to (backup)\users\{relevant user}</span> </div> </li> <li> <div> <span>Open ntuser.dat as SomeTempHiveName</span> </div> </li> <li> <div> </div> </li> <li> <div> <span>Navigate to SomeTempHiveName\Software\Piriform\CCleaner\CookiesToSave</span> </div> </li> <li> <div> <span>Copy and paste value somewhere</span> </div> </li> </ul></li> <li> <div> <span>Highlight SomeTempHiveName</span> </div> </li> <li> <div> <span>File>Unload hive</span> </div> </li> </ul></li> <li> <div> Migrate settings </div> <ul><li> <div> Start CCleaner </div> </li> <li> <div> Options>Advanced </div> <ul><li> Enable Save settings to an .ini file </li> </ul></li> <li> Exit CCleaner </li> <li> Edit C:\Program Files\CCleaner\ccleaner.ini <ul><li> Modify CookiesToSave as appropriate using info save from registry above </li> <li> Save changes </li> </ul></li> <li> Restart CCleaner </li> </ul></li>
SOP WARNING!!! Never mess with your registry unless you are confident about what you are doing!!! It is entirely possible to render a system unusable.
Helping on here I'm often uninstalling/reinstalling CCleaner, as well as sometimes doing odd thing with the settings to try and replicate what is being reported.
So as well as having backups of my .ini file I have screenshots of my CCleaner settings backed up, so that I can reset them manually if needed.
(Just an idea).