How to recover ccleaner settings from a dead system backup

[MWETulsa]

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!

[Nergal]

43 minutes ago, MWETulsa said:

I never created a .ini file on the old system

then you're pretty out of luck, unless you have a program that can read the registry of the dead computer.  Sorry

[MWETulsa]

Just found my answer. 

• Get settings from WIndows registry hive on a backup
  • Started regedit.exe
  • Highlight HKEY_USERS
  • File>Load hive
    • Navigate to (backup)\users\{relevant user}
    • Open ntuser.dat as SomeTempHiveName
    •  
    • Navigate to SomeTempHiveName\Software\Piriform\CCleaner\CookiesToSave
    • Copy and paste value somewhere
  • Highlight SomeTempHiveName
  • File>Unload hive
• Migrate settings
  • Start CCleaner
  • Options>Advanced
    • Enable Save settings to an .ini file
  • Exit CCleaner
  • Edit C:\Program Files\CCleaner\ccleaner.ini
    • Modify CookiesToSave as appropriate using info save from registry above
    • Save changes
  • Restart CCleaner

 

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.

Edited October 6, 2020 by MWETulsa

[nukecad]

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).