Not sure of default settings

I don't even really know what some of these files are so have been pretty much just using CCleaner for Temp.Internet Files but out of curiosity I just enabled the Default settings in both Windows & Apps. & did just the Analysis which found 142.1MB. I don't even know if that amount is considered a lot. Anyway . . . my actual question is: should I really keep all the Default selections? I read somewhere that there's at least a couple that shouldn't be selected,especially by a PC novice. I guess the ones I really wonder about are:

Index.dat files

System Memory Dumps

System Windows Log files

Windows MS Search

Thank you.

eMachine

Windows 7

IE 9

The default settings, albeit safe, may not always be what every person is after.

Although those settings will not delete any personal files, they may remove Jump Lists or Saved Passwords (to name a couple of examples), and stuff that is of importance to each user.

So unfortunately there is no do or don't answer to your question @grits2

What I have found when I first started using CC is to run it with the defaults and see what undesirable things happened, like recent list of Office docs would vanish, so you'd find that option and uncheck it in CC and start again.

As to those 4 specific examples you give, I have always let CC remove them without ill-effect. Those files and what they hold I have no need to keep.

Like mta said, those 4 specific examples are OK to delete.

I use CCleaner a bit differently. Imho mta is more skilled at fixing something if it breaks than I am.

I untick all the defaults then start with only removals I know are safe. Then add 1 or 2 for each rerun until something goes wrong.

Takes a bit more time at first, but saves time in the long run if I don't have to fix anything.

Lots if information here, please excuse if you already knew about it:

http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/faq

Just a quick "thanks" to both of you for now. Was going to post more but company just arrived so will have to get off PC.