oregoncoast

Davey: Thanks. You are great to spend the time to help me learn. I also downloaded your tutorial which was very helpful and the info on ERUNT and NTREGOPT. I had filed the registry backup on my another drive but will in the future send it to the default as you suggest which should make it easier to find if I again lose the Win directory utility. Thanks so much. OC

Davey: Thanks for the quick response and help. After posting, I gave it one last reboot (my seventh) before going to my backup disk. "My Computer" healed and now works. I am not sure I would have been able to merge the CCleaner.reg backup without using the "My computer" directory to find and execute the backup file. Maybe in future versions we need a "Resore" button or store it on a floppy. I have no Advanced options selected. There are no Options > Include or Exclude entries. There are some cookies marked for preservation. Strike the prior versions comment. Although it did happen, I also ran Registry Mechanic at the same time. I thought RM was the problem and unistalled it. I don't remember if I ran CCleaner after the uninstall. oregoncoast

XP SR2 CCleaner v2.05.055 After using Cleaner and Registry "My Computer" doesn't respond. Closing it goes to blue screen. Using Task Manager to close program eventually brings back desktop. Had similar problem with earlier versions (minus blue screen) which healed with shutdown, chkdsk and restart. Any ideas?