CCleaner deletes Favorites folders IE7 & Vista

[NickWW]

All of my FAVORITES folders in Internet Explorer (v7.0.6001.18000) in Windows Vista Ultimate were deleted when I ran CCleaner v2.14.763.

Links not in folders did not get deleted.

There is no ?Check Box? called FAVORITES to uncheck in order to avoid this happening.

 

NickWW

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Dell Inspiron 530, Windows Ultimate SP1, 32 bit, Intel Core Duo CPU E4600 (2MB L2 Cache, 2.4GHz, 800 FSB), 4.0GB RAM, 250GB Serial ATA HDD.

[davey]

Hello Nick,

Welcome !!!

Have you used System Restore to a point prior to using CCleaner?

You are the first user I have heard from to report such an event for that version of CCleaner. CCleaner does not have any option to clean this area.

Favorites are normally kept at C:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\Favorites in WinXP.

What is in your Vista related area ?

davey

[NickWW]

Hi Davey

 

You just had to make me look deeper LOL. Thanks.

I found my problem. The Favorites folder somehow got moved to "c:\users\user_account_name\DESKTOP\Favorites" instead of residing in "C:\users\USER_ACCOUNT_NAME\Favorites" in VISTA.

I ran CCleaner after I moved the Favorites folder and reconstructed the links. This time it did not touch my Favorites.

 

Sincere thanks

NickWW

[davey]

NickWW

Hi NickWW,

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I could have asked about many different scenarios.

As a matter fact, I have found some of my users Desktops in the Cookies folder.

Stuff Happens !!!

Good luck, davey