CCleaner and passwords

cepheus

Every time I run this program it deletes certain passwords I have saved. CCleaner provides an option of not deleting cookies for selected sites, however this doesn't stop the passwords being deleted. Has anyone any idea how I can run this without having to type most of the passwords in again?

it would also be useful if I could save the Details option when viewing files in View in Explorer

Thanks

Geoffo_M

cepheus wrote: »

Every time I run this program it deletes certain passwords I have saved. CCleaner provides an option of not deleting cookies for selected sites, however this doesn't stop the passwords being deleted. Has anyone any idea how I can run this without having to type most of the passwords in again?

it would also be useful if I could save the Details option when viewing files in View in Explorer

Thanks

I've found it worked ok for me. If I select Options, then Cookies, identify the cookie connected with the site where I have used a password and move it from the left pane to the right pane (cookies to keep). I then run CC. I think you'll find the password has not been deleted.

cepheus

Geoffo M

Just run CCleaner again, and had the same problem again, some sites do, others don't. Obviously the password save is ticked on the sites and save when CCleaner isn't used.

Three examples that don't save the password are

This site
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com
http://www.petrolprices.com/
http://www.tvguide.co.uk/ (actually this isn't a password it just saves the settings, there is a lot of work to set it up)

cepheus

Actually correction, I noticed two of these had another version of the URL which I have passed over to the right side. Still baffled about the petrolprices through

esuhl

There are two main ways that I can think of that a password may be stored:

1) Via a cookie: you enter an ID and password on a website, and the cookie stores these in an encrypted form on your PC. When you visit the site again, the cookie is read and you are logged in automatically.

2) Via your browser: your browser realises that you are typing something into an ID/password box and asks if you want it to remember these details. The browser stores these data as part of the form history. In CCleaner, you can remove the tick from the "Autocomplete Form History" for IE or "Saved Form Information" for Firefox to leave the IDs/passwords.