How to recover ccleaner settings from a dead system backup

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:
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		I never created a .ini file on the old system
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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.

  • 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&gt;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&gt;Unload hive</span>
    			</div>
    		</li>
    	</ul></li>
    <li>
    	<div>
    		Migrate settings
    	</div>
    
    	<ul><li>
    			<div>
    				Start CCleaner
    			</div>
    		</li>
    		<li>
    			<div>
    				Options&gt;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).