His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank,

This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.

All crapware programs can be useful—but each program is likely to be useful to only a few of the people the PC manufacturer inflicts it on. The PC manufacturers claim they install crapware to provide useful software, but the real reason is that the software companies pay them to include it.

an adrenocortically-mediated response to stress