I know that there is a digital signature to what CCleaner removes. What I need to know is how do I recover what CCleaner removed? Was running ANALYSYS ONLYNOT CLEANING. Had to reinstall windows prior to running ANALYSYS. Ran CCLEANER ANALYSYS LAS NIGHT. Looked at computer this morning. ALL WINDOWS.OLD FILES WERE TOTALLY REMOVED FROM COMPUTER. THESE FILES WERE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING BACKED UP, WHILE CCLEANER ANALYSYS WAS RUNNING.
QUESTION IS WHAT ARE THE PROGRAMMING COMMANDS TO RESTORE THE DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF THE FILES THAT CCLEANER REMOVED?
from my experience in running CC on a PC after Windows Vista or 7 was reloaded, CC will treat the WINDOWS.OLD file just like any other, no special treatment at all. that is, it'll look for any TEMP folders, or TMP, LOG etc files just like it does any other folder.
CC should not have 'totally removed' that folder unless you are also using some CC enhancer like winapp2.ini or have added your own INCLUDES.
but you mention you only ever did ANALYSE, so there is no way CC is to blame.
You may need to explain the order of events in more detail, for example, from your post, it can be read that you had a backup process happening, a CC analyse and did a shutdown in the mix somewhere.
Won't hurt to also state your OS and CC versions.
CC has no 'restore' feature of what it cleans, sounds like you need RECUVA.