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passwords and ccleaner

by frankzxcv May 23, 2006 2:38AM PDT

hi, i am tempted o run ccleaner and regain some diskspace and clean my registry-- but i don't want to lose all my passwords and automatic signins on various websites. any advice on which thing to turn off to keep passwords in there? cookies? thanks - fj

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passwords and ccleaner

by tomron May 23, 2006 2:51AM PDT

There are two tabs,windows and applications

Click on each one and uncheck the cookies box,one is for FF,the other for IE

I leave them checked,but its your call

Also click on the options button(on the left),then click on cookies.

I do not see an option for passwords,unless i missed it.

Remember you can back up the registry after you clean it.

Tom

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cookies in ccleaner

by glennlee May 23, 2006 3:14AM PDT

You can specify which cookies you wish ccleaner to leave alone. Under options, cookies, cookies to keep, set those sites you frequent with your browser as cookies to keep. That way your passwords will be kept and not disturbed with each cleaning.

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