While overwhelmingly and unnecessarily convoluted, I believe the OP was "simply" attempting to seek resolution of an issue with respect to deleting a registry key using CCleaner. In particular, the following key (which is part of Norton Internet Security’s Norton 360 Backup Package):
{00020424-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
The scenario is as follows:
While scanning as usual, CCleaner displays a registry error that usually and ordinarily would be resolved by simply checking the “bad” key and attempting to delete it. CCleaner will then delete the registry key, however upon restart (or