It is interesting to see just how much CCleaner removes over a period of time. I did have another cleaner (from Webroot) which had a continuing statistics monitor and it was amazing to see the amount of junk removed. Add this little monitor and you will have the perfect program.
It would be interesting to see how much it removes over one full year of use.
A lot of people suggest this. Some feel it would add bloat to the program, but as a statistics lover, I have always disagreed
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
https://en.wikipedia..._and_statistics
More extremely abominable and misleading than any of those would be Statistics compiled by CCleaner.
I could show that CCleaner has purged 50 GB of junk per month if I bothered to run it and clean my browser caches twice a day,
BUT after not running CCleaner for a month the total is less than 300 MB per month because Palemoon automatically limits the size of its cache to 200 MB.
I ran CCleaner last night.
This morning it is ready to pounce on :-
10 MB of freshly created "Windows - Cached WPF Fonts*"
5 MB of freshly created "Windows Explorer - Thumbnail Cache"
Where is the point in zapping Windows caches that get regenerated the moment you close CCleaner.
In my view the result of cleaning those caches again this morning will be
the loss of one life out of 3000 lives for 15 MB of the Flash Cells in my 56 GB SSD.
Cleaning my machine once enough is enough for me.
I don't want to needlessly kill bits of my SSD twice a day just to show that my statistics score is bigger than yours
[opinion]I agree with Alan's assessment. On top of that, as I've stated for this suggestion before, a log would be adding junk when ccleaner is attempting to rid your computer of junk[/opinion]
that said the developers do read all threads and popular viable suggestions are often added to the program.
Thing is it shouldn't really "bloat" CCleaner any if at all and it wouldn't need a physical log file it could write one maybe two registry keys (or two lines in the INI file for those of us that store the settings there) to store how much was removed, i.e;
* Cleaned 2.2 GB data
* Cleaned 21 incorrect registry items
I've seen something like that in a CD/DVD burning program from long ago that would state how much data you've burned with it since the install date.
I'd be ok with the option to have 1 or 2 lines/reg-entries
i'd be happy if it just listed the last time it was ran.
would only need an extra entry in the .ini file, or maybe a reg key, and could be displayed in the banner at the top of the program.
no bloat at all...