Thank you again for your time expended and your thoughts. I should point out that CCleaner provides an extremely valuable service, and the fact that a version of same is made available to the public at no charge is noteworthy. (I am presently evaluating the Pro service, but I have not yet had enough exposure to reach a definitive decision about becoming a member.)
Let me describe my issue slightly differently. This is not a CCleaner problem, although it occurs when I run CCleaner, which is about once a week. I run IE on a laptop using Windows 8.1. In my business (investments), I have about six sites on tabs in the IE window over the course of a day so that I can switch back and forth with ease. One of these sites enables me to construct a stock-price chart from a very basic formation, which takes considerable time. As long as I don't close down IE, or the computer, I can continue to use my revised architecture for a graph. When I return the next day, all of my tabs are there, but all of my architectural revisions on the one tab have been lost, and I have to start from scratch again. This does not occur when using Google Chrome (on a desktop using Vista). I reboot the computer, open the GC icon, and all of my tabbed sites are still there, including all of the architectural changes that I made to the graphics site.
I am not a computer technician, and probably 99% of all computer users merely want access to sites. I also don't have a thorough grasp of the use of tabs in IE, which may be able to get around my problem. What and where is the "Home Page" field to which you referred?
Because of your assistance, I think that I understand (or can get around) the problem of cleaning Google Chrome files. You are also free to ignore my comments about tabs and sites, since this is a CCleaner forum! Again, my thanks for your inputs.