Does anyone still use tune up utilities like CCleaner?

I do question the benefit of removing things like logfiles, thumbnails cache, windows update folders for trivial amount of space. Do I think its worth seeing thumbnails get regenerated so I can get 4 meg of space?

TairikuOkami said:

It is not about saving the space, it is about preventing problems.
Do you prefer a vaccine or do go for a treatment after you get ill?
Problems are usually solved by clearing corrupted caches and etc.

To me, personally, getting the vaccine implies that one should be able to fix that which causes those caches to get corrupted, such that those caches will no longer get corrupted. Harsh, I know...

Quesito said:

....using the "disk cleanup C: already deletes more files than CCleaner Pro.
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Really? That's not what I find. For example, Disk Cleanup will not clean up Temporary Files that are less than 24 hours old but CCLeaner can. Run disk Cleanup, then see how much more CCleaner can find...

Security experts recommend not using this program or similar ones. If you use them, your Windows 10 will give errors in the long run....

Never, ever, use the registry cleaning function of any 'cleaner'.

Chrysalis said:

I do question the benefit of removing things like logfiles, thumbnails cache, windows update folders for trivial amount of space. Do I think its worth seeing thumbnails get regenerated so I can get 4 meg of space?

As a matter of true fact, I actually even went as far as to DISABLE the thumbnail removal by Automatic Maintenance (Task Scheduler).

Cleaning the event logs is also an advanced option in CCleaner (by default not selected). Though personally I prefer to leave the event logs intact (just in case I need to refer to them unexpectedly).