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CCleaner blocking use of restore point.
Last night, I was taking some time to do some "deep" system cleaning. Basically having Kaspersky first do a full system deep scan. Then having CCleaner do a system check for file bloat and corrupt registry files. Everything looked fine. Kaspersky didn't find anything, so both my hard drives got good marks. CCleaner didn't find too much out of sorts in registry, few broken keys left over from deleting a few programs, and that's about it.
What I didn't notice, after I did all this I had to do a reboot. Then just now I wanted to logon to one of my jobs via Chrome, when I realized Chrome was gone!!! It gets even more bazar then this. I can see Chrome in the C:\program files (X86)\Google\Chrome. But there's no .exe file.
Time is of the essence here folks. I work from home doing contract work. I'm currently working for 2 different companies as a 1099 independent contractor. These two jobs are my only source for income, such as they are, so it's imperative that I get this fixed asap!
What to do next? Widows 10 only "sees" one restore point but won't use it, because it's over 10 days old. CCleaner has 2 restore points listed. The first was done on 6/14, so I assume this is the one Windows "sees". CCleaner has 2nd one done only 7 days ago on the 23rd. But for "system safety" according to CCleaner, has been disabled, preventing Windows from seeing it, or letting me use it.
Before anyone suggest that I just delete or clean out what's left of Chrome and reinstall it. I have thought of this, but I'm hoping to avoid this, if I can just get that restore point that CCleaner is hogging, I would avoid a huge head ache. One of the jobs I work is Amazon's Mechanical Turks. There's a very basic program you get from Amazon to do the work. Some folks with a bit of programing skills have written addon scripts that makes doing work for this program quicker, and more efficient. I use about 18 of these scripts doing my work daily. So after installing Chrome again, then setting up all these addon files would be a royal PIA that would take me pretty much the rest of the day to reconfigure after installing them again. I would really like to avoid doing that! What can I do?