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Ccleaner deletes my saved UIDs and Passwords! Make it STAHP, Mommy!
I'm running Firefox x64 (latest version) on my Win 7 Home Premium x64, i5, DDR3, GTX970 potato. I run Ccleaner periodically to fight the hard disk bloat, especially my two SSDs, which seemed ample 3 years ago when I bought them but which now are in danger of getting full, thanks to stuff I've installed and, on my System SSD, Windows bloat.
However, every time I run Ccleaner, it deletes all of my browser-saved online credentials, which makes Ccleaner the slowest disk cleanup tool known to man- 60 seconds for it to analyze and run with its default settings and 3 days for me to painstakingly, one by one, get all of my passwords reset- a daunting task since so many sites want my old PW before they'll allow me to set a new one, making a mockery of the term "password recovery."
Yes, I can see that Ccleaner offers a variety of options and check-boxes before each run, but the problem is not one of them is labeled "ALL OF YOUR STORED USER IDs & PASSWORDS." Instead, they are named inscrutably, like "Freshware Transmogrification Database" and "Windows Glompfing Parameters."
Could someone please tell me which of the many Ccleaner options is/are the one(s) I should uncheck to make it stop irrevocably deleting everything in my browser that I actually care about keeping?
Bonus points for anyone who can tell me why Ccleaner devs would design a system that destroys such valuable data in the first place without clearly labeling it "WARNING! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!" and alerting me that it was about to ruin my life for a few days of painstaking credentials recovery. I just don't get it. Thanks.
Last edited by Hoggy Dog; 17 Jan 2020 at 02:49. Reason: Deleting extra CRLFs inserted by forum software