| I am very sorry, but someone who calls CCleaner junkware (to be cleaned
| up) is clueless to me.
|

I find it mysterious that CCleaner has such a
devoted following. The same fervor is displayed
every time it's mentioned. Several people have
expressed an opinion that such utilities are mostly
snake oil, without any disagrement voiced. Yet
with the mention of CCleaner the fan club gets
angry.

On their website they claim to clean up junk files:
OK, but Windows can do that.... Delete browser
history: Browsers can do that.... Clean the Registry:
Risky business that provides no benefit. The logic
for Registry cleaners simply doesn't hold water. That
topic has been discussed many times before. And that
list of functions sounds to me like a dozen other similar
"PC tune-up" programs. They all provide the same
function: They're equivalent to waxing your car and
hanging a new perfumed paper pine tree from the
rear view mirror. It won't help your car to run better,
but it does provide a sense of having cleaned up and
improved one's car. And the benefit is in reverse
proportion to one's understanding of cars. The less
one knows about mechanics, and the more one projects
an animistic personality onto one's car, the better those
rituals seem to work and the more one's car seems to
appreciate the effort.